Tenting experiment one: Cress of doom.

So I like cress on my sarnies (sandwiches for the uninitiated) and I thought it must be cheaper to grow my own cress than buy it from the local supermarket.

Ping!

Behold, the light bulb goes on and it occurs to me that I could sustain my cress fetish by getting the seeds from a fully grown cress plant. Interestingly, I've never actually seen a fully grown cress plant and so this experiment is twofold.

1. Grow self sustaining cress.
2. What the fuck does a full grown cress plant look like?

More to come.

Update: 19th July... or, much later.

Well the cress of doom was a disaster. Instructions state 'sprinkle on damp cotton wool or paper towel'. Of course, what they then don't tell you if you use the paper towel is that the roots don't stick and it dries out like a son of a bitch, forcing you to water every other minute. The results were pitiful, and the photos show our first experiment was a failure. Picture one shows the 'planted' cress under film. Two shows growing pains and three the madness of unsecured roots. Shortly after they shrivelled up and died. Boo, sucks. Back to the drawing board.



Next time, we're using compost and containers snagged from shop-bought cress. Never deterred, the Tenting experimenteers will triumph.