As part of our Eco work this term, Mrs Richardson suggested we grow cress and then use what we’d grown! A great lesson in sustainability.
Over to…. our three intrepid Blog reporters; Faye Adams, Rose Santangeli and Carys McHallum for more information!
We started growing cress with our class. Mrs Richardson helped us. We grew the cress on a paper towel on a plate in the portacabin. We did this on the 21st April and, on the 5th May, we harvested it and ate it in egg and cress sandwiches. I’m not keen on egg so I tried just cress but I wasn’t too sure of it! By Faye
Two weeks ago, we started growing cress in our classroom. We put the tiny seeds on a paper towel on a plate and kept them wet. The cress was kept in the classroom, in the middle of our desk. Mrs Richardson guided us on what to do, how to look after them and how not to drown them! Our table was doing really well with their cress growing – though on the 12th day it did look a bit squashed! We tried to revive the cress with more water and this did help to bring it back to life. We cut it up (harvested it) on the 5th May and added it to egg mayo (eggs brought in by Hamish and Malcolm) to make egg and cress sandwiches. I enjoyed the cress; it had a peppery flavour. This taught me that I could easily grow cress at home! By Rose
We started growing cress on the 21st April. At first it grew the tiniest bit but it was still growing! Don’t worry we did water it and that helped it to really grow! Because we weren’t at school last Monday, it went an extra day without water and so it looked as if it had died. But a good water really helped it. We mixed it in with egg mayo from eggs from the McGregor’s chickens. Everybody helped to make sandwiches and tried the egg and cress – or just cress sandwiches. I LOVED it! Thank you Mrs Richardson! By Carys
