Gourmet salad and sandwich vegetable.
Delicious and vitamin-rich. Watercress may be direct seeded about 1/2" apart, 1/4" deep. Thin to 4" apart and keep well watered, or start seed indoors, keeping soil moist. Transplant to large pots, cold frame, or garden with soil that is fertile, humus-rich, well-limed, and has a pH around 7.0. Keep soil moist, or sit pots in pans of water and renew water daily. Perennial in zones 6-9. Avg. 147,500 seeds/oz. Packet: 250 seeds.
Plant Cycle: (A) Days to Maturity or Bloom: 60
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Growing Information:
Greens, Cress
CULTURE: Curly, Persian, and Wrinkled Crinkled Cress: Sow shallowly in a 2-4" wide band, early spring through early fall or indoors, year-round, in a flat, about 20 seeds/in. Begin harvest in 10 days when 2" tall. Sow every 2 weeks for a steady supply.
NOTE: Curly and Persian types are so fast growing we suggest planting in, and harvesting from, a flat using a soilless mix. Also for "sprouting" like radish/alfalfa seeds.
SEED SPECS: SEEDS/OZ.: Avg. 11,200.
PACKET: 250 seeds sows 12 sq.in.
CULTURE: Upland Cress: Direct seed from midspring onward, about 15 seeds/ft., 1/4" deep. Keep soil moist as seed germinates slowly. Thin to 4-6" apart. Pick individual leaves or clip full rosettes at the root.
SEED SPECS: SEEDS/OZ.: Avg. 22,000.
PACKET: 250 seeds sows 15'.
Watercress: see culture in product description.
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Salad Mix Component A mixture of lettuce and greens with different colors, flavors and textures, harvested at a tender, baby, bite-size stage. For fresh salads. |
