Cress Sow all year Harvest 7-10 days after
sowing for sprouts
For continuous sowing. A salad vegetable for the window sill or garden. Indoors
can be sown in compost in small punnets, on soaked tissue paper or on a saucer
being kept wet at all times, do not pre-soak seeds. Outdoors may be broadcast in
small blocks direct into the soil.
Av 1,000 seeds
Key AV = Average quantity of seeds in packet,
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Polycress
Polycress is quick to mature with an upright habit producing large dissected
mildly pungent leaves in approx 25 days from sowing, ideal baby leaf
indoor or outdoor sowings. Sow March to Sept at
3 week intervals, sow thinly 1cm deep in drills 30cm apart. Best suited
for outdoor growing in moist well drained soil. Thin seedlings to 5cm
apart. Harvest as required, picking a few leaves from each plant. Can
also be grown in sprouters,
sow indoors all year round in pots or trays on kitchen roll or compost on
a windowsill. Sow in succession for baby salad leaves. Polycress is slow to
bolt if kept well watered, baby leaf an excellent garnish to any dish. Av 380 seeds per gram.
Cress Presto
Lepidium sativum
Bright green frilly edged leaves, popular European cress, grow indoors all
year round in pots or trays on kitchen roll or compost on a windowsill,
outdoors sow in situ in a prepared seed bed throughout the warm growing
season. Ready in approx 12 days. Cress presto is popular for microgreens
Cress
Selection 74 Organic Sourced Lepidium sativum
Fast maturing, giving very even plants in the punnet, also a very
effective green manure.
35g pkt Av 15,000 seeds
Greek Cress
A new addition for the salad bowl, Greek Cress has curled and dissected leaves, that have a distinct peppery flavour. Quick growing, sow by broadcasting in successive sowings for a continual harvest. Very popular for microgreens
and baby leaf.
Cress
American or Land
Barbarea verna
Baby leaf.
Young land Cress leaves used cooked, as seasoning or raw, having a hot spicy flavour
they are a useful addition to salads. The land grown alternative to water
cress being similar in taste. The seed can be sprouted. Can be cropped all
year if autumn sowings are given protection through winter (cloches). Sow
Spring to September in situ , successional sowings for continual cropping,
position full sun for winter crops while partial shade is best for summer
crops.
The cultural
information should be used as a guide only, I have found a number of different
sowing techniques for the same seed from different sources there does not seem
to be a standard. With this in mind you should use this website as a guide only,
you probably already have a tried and tested way of sowing different seeds. As a
rule of thumb the larger the seed size the more cover it requires, and fine seed
like Lobelia Begonia etc requires no cover.
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