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Welcome to The Compost Bin, which contains my musings on my life and things which interest me.

I live in Herefordshire with my husband and daughter; we have 4 acres of land which contains a woodland, polytunnel, small orchard, garden and veg plot. We grow our own organic produce and make lots of cider, wine, jam and chutney. We also make a lot of compost. We share our lives with 11 Chickens, 3 Cats, 3 Guinea Pigs and assorted wildlife. We try our best to live a more self reliant lifestyle, growing and making and fixing and mending and re-using and re-cycling stuff, if we can.

I used to be a Research Scientist, but that was many years ago. I now work as a freelance environmental educator/writer/forest school leader and community artist; I also spend a lot of time volunteering as a Master Composter and Master Gardener, helping people make compost and grow veg at home or at school.

I started blogging because I love to write about the things which interest me. Whether it's something I have done in the garden, an article for a magazine, a review of websites or equipment I use, a training course I have attended or "just" my daily routine - I love to write.

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Sunday, 27 May 2012

Growing Watercress

Something I am very pleased about this year is my success at growing Watercress "Aqua" - never tried this before as I thought it needed clean flowing water ( like the watercress beds in Hertfordshire near where I grew up as a child) but no! you CAN grow it in a pot! and it is lovely!


As the seed is very small you need very fine graded growing medium. - sieve it if it is a bit coarse


See how tiny the seed is?



Sprinkle the seed on the surface and just pat into the growing medium, do not cover.


Label and sit the pot in a container of water - do not water from the top as you will wash the fine seed away!

In about 8 weeks ( or maybe less) you will have this - you can keep on cutting and it will regrow as long as you cut the tips out and leave some nodes for regrowth to occur.

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4 comments:

  1. Brilliant I may give this a go, I've never grown watercress before, like you I thought they needed to be in moving water.

    Sue xx

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  2. Sue, you can also grow it from a bunch bought from a shop - stand it in water and you will see roots grow - and more leaves will grow on the stems.
    Happy watercress growing :-)

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  3. cool. I think I will have to try this!

    thanks

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  4. What a great idea, will try that tomorrow when I got some plants from the shop.

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