Garden Cress – 100 Seeds
(Lepidium sativum)
R30.00
Garden Cress is a fast-growing, edible herb which is related to watercress and mustard and sharing their peppery, tangy flavor and aroma.
Common Names: Garden Cress, garden pepper cress, pepper grass and pepperwort.
Indoor Sowing: Year Round.
Direct Sowing: Early Spring and Autumn.
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🍃 Culinary Quick Facts
Culinary Info
- 🌍 Origin / Region: Egypt, Southwest Asia
- 🍽️ Culinary Use: Cooking, Garnish, Salads, Seasoning
- 🥗 Edible Part: Leaf, Root, Seed, Stem
- 😋 Flavor Profile: Peppery, Pungent, Tangy
Growth Traits
- 🌱 Life Cycle: Annual
- 🌾 Plant Type: Herbaceous Annual
- 🦋 Pollinator Method: Attracts Bees, Attracts Hoverflies, Self-pollinating
- 🔁 Pollination Needs: Needs Only 1 Plant
- 🪴 Growth Habit: Upright
- 🌸 Flower Color: White
Growing Requirements
- 🌞 Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Shade
- ☀️ Growing Conditions: Cool Weather, Frost Sensitive, Low Cold Tolerance, Not Drought Tolerant, Not Heat Tolerant
- 🟤 Soil Preference: Fertile, Loam, Moist, Tolerant of most soils, Well-Drained
Garden cress (Lepidium sativum) is a fast-growing, edible herb plant which is related to watercress and mustard and sharing their peppery, tangy flavor and aroma. In some regions garden cress is known as garden pepper cress, pepper grass or pepperwort. It is a biennial plant, and most typically used as a salad herb or as a leaf vegetable. Its leaves develop a hotter flavor as the plant matures.
Culinary Uses
- Used in sandwiches such as egg and cress sandwiches.
- Cress is best added fresh to recipes and works well with egg dishes, salads and sandwiches.
- The sprouts are often used as a garnish or for juicing.
Growing Garden Cress
Indoor Sowing: Year Round.
Direct Sowing: Early Spring and Autumn.
- It grows best in moist, rich, well-drained soil or well-rotted compost.
- Best grown in partial shade.
- Plants must be kept moist during dry periods.
- Sow seed in the garden early in spring and autumn, or grow indoors year-round.
- Surface sow the seeds thinly and cover lightly with soil.
- Keep soil moist, but to not soggy.
- Seeds will germinate in about 14 days at 7 – 15°C.
- Thin the seedlings, leaving about 10 cm between the plants.
- It will be ready for harvest 15 to 20 days after sowing.
- Sow cress every 10 days for a continuous harvest through midsummer.
- Plant cress in late summer for an autumn and winter harvest.
Can this plant be used for culinary purposes?
Garden Cress is traditionally used for culinary purposes such as cooking and garnish.
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