Garden cress can be cultivated all year round

Garden cress can be cultivated all year round.

It is grown outdoors from April to September. The rest of the time you can put them in bowls in the kitchen or another suitable room, pots, flat boxes and similar containers. Your light requirement is low, so that it also makes do with a sunny location.
To always have fresh cress available, one leads at intervals of 14 Regularly through follow-up seeds. Outdoors, sow in rows 15cm apart with a seed requirement of 2 g/m2. For growing in pots or similar. Containers are used as light as possible, but nutrient-rich soil, but sows widely and as densely as possible. In this case, the seed requirement is approx. 30 to 50 g/m2. The seed is only thinly covered with soil and usually germinates 2 to 3 Days.

Garden cress has to be kept moist all the time before it is ready to be cut, if they are a height of 6 to 7 cm has reached. It is harvested by cutting it off with scissors. Please note, that soil once used cannot be used again for cress cultivation.

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