This morning as I was packing up after doing a bit of sawing of wood for my wood burning stove, I spotted what I thought was a viola in the guttering of the conservatory. When I reached up to weed it I discovered it was some watercress, obviously selfsown from the watercress I had had in a pot.
Only yesterday I had torn from a magazine my next door neighbour had given me a snippet about rooting watercress stems. "Keep the contents very wet on a cool, bright windowsill inooors. You'll have free home-grown watercress for the rest of the winter."
My conservatory windowsill has plenty of light, but not sure whether that counts as bright, as it is north facing. Will this get too cool?
I could put it upstairs in the front bedroom, where the cats couldn't knock it over. This would be south facing. You are often advised to save energy by not heating rooms you don't use. Having been brought up in a house without central heating and living in a flat without central heating for 16 years, I know that if you don't heat a room all winter everything ends up smelling musty! So when the central heating is on that room is heated thought the thermostat is on low.
Ah, well, it is still free, so worth the experiment!
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