Tom's aunt Fini gave the children a great vintage book called 'Indoor and Outdoor Gardening for Young People' by Cynthia and Alvin Koehler (1969) along with a packet of cress seeds. These seeds have been Keira's pet project over the past week- she helped to plant them in a plastic container, water them and check on their progress all with the utmost care. Fini kindly gave her a water hyacinth for her birthday in a special vase and that has also been very exciting. It's been sitting on a sunny windowsill, slowly unfolding.
The little garden of cress grew very quickly and yesterday the children ate their first cress sandwich, which K declared to be delicious. The cress sandwiches reminded me of growing seeds inside eggshells when I was little- do you remember doing that too? We would draw faces on the shells and then the growing cress was like hair. I think those egg-heads should be our next indoor gardening project.
