right so, I read in Grow your Own Drugs that you can grow watercress in a bowl of water in your kitchen. Watercress was/is one of my favourite vegetables and one that I wanted to grow in the garden but I think it might be a bit tricky. I also saw on the show that if you get it in the wild then you might also get liver fluke along with it!
I decided to give it a go last Thursday and bought a bag of watercress in Tesco.
The ingredients were:
a glass bowl
some pebbles
some spring water
bag of supermarket watercress
I was wondering where I was going to get a big glass bowl but given that I never throw anything out I found a big clear plastic bowl in the dresser. I completely forgot I even owned something like that and I don’t think it’s ever been used. It’s from IKEA, label still on the bottom. Also from IKEA years ago are the glass pebbles I decided to use. It pays to never throw anything away!
I bought evian along with the bag of watercress as I reckoned I should give them a good start.
Then you stick the watercress between the pebbles after you’ve put the spring water in, and then you wait.
Then a few days later – not sure how many as I wasn’t paying close attention – they start to perk up and look less wilty. I planted them on Thursday 10th and by Sunday 13th there were roots! As I said, I didn’t check for roots before today so they may have started earlier, but look how long they are already!
That’s really impressive! Now I wait for it to start growing bigger and in six weeks I clean out the bowl and start over with whatever’s still growing. Fantastic!
