Buy one bag of watercress and make it last all summer? Read this!

A tray, some pots with their feet in water, and a summer's supply of watercress using this simple trick.

Take a bag of watercress:

A tip is to buy the oldest bag you can find - why? - because you want to see roots coming from those watercress stalks. If you can find a bag that has a reduced price due to it's sell by date being close to expiry, all the better.

But, if you prefer to buy a fresh packet so as to eat it (yum) you can still make that bag last all summer. The trick is to get it to root - and it couldn't be simpler.

Take around 10 stalks, strip off most of the leaves, and plop them in a glass of water:

Place on a sunny wondowsill for a couple of days and ..... roots!

Plant each stalk into a pot of soil, place those pots in a tray of water, keep that tray filled with water and in a sunny or bright spot and cut the watercress as it grows. The more you cut, the more it grows.

Watercress all summer long.

Isn't that amazing?

And here's another amazing tip about .......basil. Those pots of basil that you buy in the supermarket aren't just one basil plant you know? They are lots of small basil seedlings crammed into one pot. Take that plant from the pot and seperate each seedling and repot - I have just potted up 12 new basil plants from one pot. I'm going to try the same with parsley and coriander next. If you have any other tips like this, do let me know and I'll feature it on the vlog.