Growing Garden Cress.................
Cultivation of garden cress
Site: Garden cress grows best in moist, rich, well-drained soil or well-rotted compost. Tolerated pH range of garden cress is from 4.9 to 8.0. Garden cress grows in full sun and does not tolerate partial shade. The plants must be kept moist during dry periods.
Propagation: Grow from garden cress seeds should be sown in spring as soon as the soil can be processed. Plant garden cress 0.6 cm (4.1 inch) deep. Sow seeds to cover thick and light.
Growing: Thin the seedlings (which are edible), with about 10 cm (4 inches) between plants. Garden cress is a cool season plant. In hot weather, leaving the acquisition of a less pleasant, warm and peppery flavor. It bolts quickly in hot weather, make successive plantings every 10 days to ensure a continuous supply of young leaves during the season. Garden cress is generally free of pests and diseases and cress sow themselves easily. Pot garden cress and grow them indoors in a cool, sunny window. Give plants a shower in the sink or tub twice a week. In order to grow cress sprouts, seeds, press tightly and evenly on a clean, sterile nutrient medium or on wet paper towels. Keep cold, about 10 ° C (50 ° F) and in the dark for 10 to 14 days. Discard if there are any signs of fungus. (Seedlings are susceptible to damping-off, hence the need for a sterile medium). If raising sprouts together mustard and cress, the sow mustard seeds 3 to 4 days later, when they germinate faster than cress.
Harvest: Use scissors to harvest watercress sprouts, when the youngest leaves are green, usually 10 days after sowing. Harvest fresh young leaves of watercress, before the plants bloom, when they are very low-growing rosettes. If you wait until the plants bloom, you see the leaves are hard and sharp. Stop upland cress leaves are harvested once a flower stem like the leaves to eat then too bitter. Pick cress flower heads for fresh use as required.
Culinary uses: garden cress adds a piquancy to salads, side dishes and sauces. As a very young plant to him developing a Tang mustard and cress, but the leaves taste a hot, as the plant matures.
Site: Garden cress grows best in moist, rich, well-drained soil or well-rotted compost. Tolerated pH range of garden cress is from 4.9 to 8.0. Garden cress grows in full sun and does not tolerate partial shade. The plants must be kept moist during dry periods.
Propagation: Grow from garden cress seeds should be sown in spring as soon as the soil can be processed. Plant garden cress 0.6 cm (4.1 inch) deep. Sow seeds to cover thick and light.
Growing: Thin the seedlings (which are edible), with about 10 cm (4 inches) between plants. Garden cress is a cool season plant. In hot weather, leaving the acquisition of a less pleasant, warm and peppery flavor. It bolts quickly in hot weather, make successive plantings every 10 days to ensure a continuous supply of young leaves during the season. Garden cress is generally free of pests and diseases and cress sow themselves easily. Pot garden cress and grow them indoors in a cool, sunny window. Give plants a shower in the sink or tub twice a week. In order to grow cress sprouts, seeds, press tightly and evenly on a clean, sterile nutrient medium or on wet paper towels. Keep cold, about 10 ° C (50 ° F) and in the dark for 10 to 14 days. Discard if there are any signs of fungus. (Seedlings are susceptible to damping-off, hence the need for a sterile medium). If raising sprouts together mustard and cress, the sow mustard seeds 3 to 4 days later, when they germinate faster than cress.
Harvest: Use scissors to harvest watercress sprouts, when the youngest leaves are green, usually 10 days after sowing. Harvest fresh young leaves of watercress, before the plants bloom, when they are very low-growing rosettes. If you wait until the plants bloom, you see the leaves are hard and sharp. Stop upland cress leaves are harvested once a flower stem like the leaves to eat then too bitter. Pick cress flower heads for fresh use as required.
Culinary uses: garden cress adds a piquancy to salads, side dishes and sauces. As a very young plant to him developing a Tang mustard and cress, but the leaves taste a hot, as the plant matures.
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