first crop of the year

[Andy Hamilton]

I am the first here to plant and harvest a crop in 2006? It was cress and well nice too.

[Shirley]

nice one Andy!!

Going to grow some with my little one - will pick up some seeds next time we go out (tomorrow likely) - he's only a wee laddy and HATES anything green!! Hoping it will encourage him to eat.

[Wombat]

You beat me mate ! I've got a fair bit in, but nothing to harvest yet!

Nev

[Millymollymandy]

Well done - I keep forgetting to grow cress, to go in those egg sandwiches! The packet sits on a shelf above my sink too!

[Wombat]

I got a taste of cress when I was in Belgium, but they called it field lettuce.

Nev

[kevin m.]

I saw some cress seeds for sale in a local supermarkwt the other day.
They were in a range of seeds (from Johnsons),especially aimed at children.
They were called 'Cress heads',and showed the cress growing like hair out of the tops of empty eggshells which had faced painted on them!

[hedgewitch]

MMM - I keep forgetting to grow this Plant too ( but I need to get some Seeds fIrst! )
I hope I can buy them over here, not seen them before.
I'm off to the Seed supplier on tuesday to spend all my hard earned cash on a bucket load of Seeds!
I can't wait - I'm like a kid in a sweet shop.

[ina]

Under normal conditions I always have a tub with cress sitting on the windowsill in the kitchen - but the last lot hardly germinated; it's just been too cold! Some few of them have now grown, but the rest of the seeds has probably been irreparably damaged by sitting on the damp paper too long.

Ina

[Andy Hamilton]

One of the batches I had failed as well because of the cold I guess. They took ages to grow to any decent size as well.

I grew it on a hedgehog thing that some friends got me for christmas. It was made in latin america by fair trade workers.

[Chickenlady]

Too busy being creative with leeks and parsnips to think about growing cress!! Flipping mud all over the kitchen (could grow some cress in that, maybe?).

[Millymollymandy]

I can buy cress seeds in France but the instructions are for growing in the soil. Given the price of a packet of seed (around €2.50) growing it the British way means its costs too much money as I'd go through a packet in a couple of sowings. So I don't do it very often!

Hedgewitch - it's called Lepidium sativum to help you to find it (are you in Spain? I can't remember!).

Wombat - I have a feeling you were eating mache (French word), known as lamb's lettuce in English or corn salad in American. Then again there is land cress (Barbarea verna) which is different again and much like water cress.

Did it look like this? This is mache



or this? Windowsill cress

[Wombat]

G'DAy M3,

I think it did look more like the Mache than the other stuff! it was small plants, but a whole stack of 'em.

Nev