Cres(s)t

We're not done with gardening yet.
Herbs are so healthful! And it's easy to grow some at home.

You know gadgets like the cress hedgehog, do you?
A smart, cute, easy-to-use means to grow cress at home.

Of course, cress is quite undemanding, so you could also grow it on a wet patch of cotton.

But if you're really into something... weird, or loved to do the play-do haircuts as a kid, you might like to grow your cress on a clay head...

...like this one I found on the online pages of a German newspaper (http://www.sueddeutsche.de/)


Yes, you can... buy it online (click on the pic).
The herb provided with the Obama head is called Chia (a kind of sage, as it seems), but once it's withered, you can surely reuse the head for cress.
Or whatever.

Anyway, my favourit cress head is this one:


And I just can't remember where I got that photo. Duh!