How To Grow Your Own Watercress

Nov 26
16:57

2011

Elroy Tyner

Elroy Tyner

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Watercress is really a delight to have in your backyard specifically if you have a stream or perhaps a garden pond to grow it. But if you don't, it is...

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Watercress is really a delight to have in your backyard specifically if you have a stream or perhaps a garden pond to grow it. But if you don't,How To Grow Your Own Watercress Articles it is possible to still cultivate this peppery plant in pots, big containers or maybe an old tub set in trays of water or wet garden soils.

It might be easier to cultivate your own watercress rather than buying it from unknown sources. This aquatic plant very easily becomes polluted by contaminated water. If you grow your own, you can be certain of the quality of the watercress you are harvesting.

Watercress may be easily grown from seeds. However growing it from stem pieces is also easy. They root easier too, if they're sown in very wet soil.

If possible, a 20 centimeter level of well rotted compost have to be at the bottom of the bed, plus another 10 centimeters of rich soil on top of it. The top layer of the bed should be a layer of fine pea gravel that is five centimeters thick.

To cultivate watercress, sow the seeds about 1/4 inch deep directly in wet garden soil. This should be finished about three weeks ahead of the common date of last frost. If you believe the seeds are going to be washed from the soil bed by high water, mulch softly.

You could grow seeds placed in damp paper towels set in containers. In good conditions, consistent moisture along with a temperature of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit, the seedlings should germinate in ten days or so.

If you are starting watercress from cuttings, it should be about 10 centimeters in length. The lower part of the cutting should be stripped of foliage then planted around seven centimeters apart from others.

They should be guarded from the sun, not until their roots are well established. As soon as they start to mature, you could add water to the container allowing only the tip of the plant to show above the water. Make sure to replace the water at least once a week as watercress tend not to thrive in stagnant water.

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