Water Cress

wallbash

Running water tends to be cleaner than water that just sits there.

So if we have a pump , circulating thru a uv light and filter and water is crystal clear ( so far this year, its still early) we might well survive?

Thinking I might give it a go .

Ps can I eat my water lilys ??...........................joke!

shykins

foxgloves i did just that and all i got was skinny little seedlings that had next to no leaves

maybe its the hard water around here that is the problem

Janey3

foxgloves wrote: »

It doesn't need running water. I grow mine in a very low-tech way.....I sow the watercress seed in 3 flower pots of compost & stand them in an old washing-up bowl on the patio. Fill the bowl with water at least half way up the sides of the pots & keep it topped up. Every week, just tip out the old water & replace with new. Try not to let it flower, it's the leaves you want to keep productive. For the pots, pick the largest ones you can that will still fit in the bowl. Sometimes, I'm still getting good pickings off it through the autumn, but it doesn't like frost. April is a good time to sow. I don't bother thinning it.

Will definately give this a try!

Hope to get some results one way or another.:rotfl:

As a child I lived near a stream that had water cress growing and mum used to say you've got to get up really early to pick water cress, which I did - think it was just her way of getting me out of bed!:rotfl:

Farway

shykins wrote: »

foxgloves i did just that and all i got was skinny little seedlings that had next to no leaves

maybe its the hard water around here that is the problem

Not a hard water problem, the best watercress is from the Meon Valley, grown in chalk streams at Warnford, Arlesford etc, all on river Meon which rises through chalk downlands

Years ago the cress was taken to London markets on the railway, hence the Watercress line

Janey3

Thanks for the links Farway, they make interesting reading.