Growing Food

Cress

This is really easy to grow and is often available in supermarkets. It's not very expensive and only takes a few days to grow from a tiny seed into a plant which children can eat.

Fun ways to grow cress
Save egg shells, keeping as much height to the shell as possible. Decorate the eggs will paints and then fill with cotton wool. Dampen the cotton wool, and pour on some cress seeds. Keep the cotton wool damp else the seeds will die off. Within a couple of days the egg shells will have cress-hair.
If you have an empty flowerbed in the garden you can write their name in cress seeds and they'll grow to the shape.

Carrot Tops
Cut the tops off carrots when preparing them - about 1/4-1/2 an inch will do. Keep in a saucer of water and they'll grow new fluffy tops.

Keep plenty of water in the saucer.

Its taken nearly two weeks for the carrots to have tiny sprouts from their tops but that might be because this was done in February and its a bit cold and theres not much sunshine.

Its now over a month since I started the carrots off in this saucer and they've not grown quite well and are a few inches tall. They have a great long thin root system.

We've also added some more carrots into the saucer to see how they do and whether they're quicker now that spring is here and there is more sunshine!