Quick to grow food plant?

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My daughter has been set a homework task to cook something using a food that she has grown herself.

She’s got 5 weeks, apart from cress is there anything that will grow enough to cook with between now and then? Can you tell that I’m not much of a gardener? 🤣

What a very stupid homework to set. Even radishes will not be fully grown in five weeks.

I'd personally go down the route of sowing lots of micro greens (lettuce, cress and herbs). What are they supposed to be learning from this project??

The pics might help!

Take the basil plant and cut off one stem below the first leaves that come off the stem. you want a long stem.

Take off all the other leaves leaving 2 at the top.

Put the stem in water with just the 2 leaves at the top out of the water.

When it grown roots, congrats, you grew some basil. Put that on a tomato and mozarella salad.

These pea shoots have taken a couple of weeks to get to this. Lovely in a salad. I grow them from the dried peas in the pulses section in the supermarket. Cheap and lovely.

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beansprouts take a few days

micro greens - couple of weeks

you would not reliably get much else

you can buy both mung/other beans for sprouting & microgreen seeds on Amazon

DD could use both in a salad