Cress & Mustard

🥪🌱 How to Grow Cress & Mustard – A Mini Garden for Kids!

Grow your own tasty greens in just a few days — no garden needed! You can even grow them in an egg shell, a yogurt pot, or on a sponge! 💧🐣

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📅 When to Sow

• Any time of year! (Yup, even winter!)

• Grows best indoors on a warm, sunny windowsill.

🌱 How to Grow Your Mini Greens

🧪 Step-by-Step (Super Easy!):

1. Take your pot and fill with soil.

2. Sprinkle cress seeds and mustard seeds 

   • (Try writing your initials with the seeds!)

3. Gently press the seeds down 

4. Use a spoon or spray to water them — they love it damp but not soaked!

5. Put your tray on a bright windowsill, but not too hot.

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🌞 What Happens Next?

DayWhat You’ll See

🌱 Day 1–2Tiny shoots start to pop up!

🌿 Day 3–4Leaves start to grow — it’s ALIVE!

🥗 Day 5–7Ready to harvest and eat! Yum!

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🍴 Time to Eat!

• When they’re about 5–7cm tall, you can snip them with scissors and add to:

  • Sandwiches 🥪

  • Egg and cress 🥚

  • Salads 🥗

• Cress is mild and mustard is a little spicy — try both!

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🧠 Fun Ideas

• 🐣 Egg Head Garden: Grow them in empty eggshells and draw faces — the cress makes “hair!”

• 🎨 Seed Art: Use seeds to make shapes or letters

• 📏 Growth Chart: Measure how tall your plants get each day!

• 🔍 Science Project: Try growing one in the dark and one in the light – what’s different?

💡 Tips & Tricks

• Keep the soil damp every day.

• Don’t let it dry out or your baby plants will get sad. 😢

• You can grow more every week — it's super fast!