Fine Curled Salad Cress Seed

Lepidium sativum

Everyone should grow this!
From sowing to eating in less than a week!
True salad cress, not Rape which is often mis-sold as salad cress.

Supplied as a packet of approximately 2000 seeds.

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GBP1 or more £2.25 each

Description

Everyone should grow this! From sowing to eating in less than a week! This invaluable side salad or garnish is easily and quickly grown and is the perfect indoor crop.

This is true salad cress, not Rape which is often sold as Cress - so if you have been put off by the flavours of shop-bought cress do give this a go as you may be really surprised by its particularly good flavour.

Thinly sow at regular intervals on folded tissues or similar placed in a waterproof container or dish - no soil or covering is necessary.
Place in a warm dark place - a kitchen cupboard is ideal (an airing cupboard will be too warm).
After four days remove.
The cress will have germinated and be about 2" (5 cm) tall. It will appear blanched (white) due to lack of light.
Place in a well-lit window position (add only a little water if tissue is drying out), turn container round the next day - your cress will now have 'greened up'.
Cut with scissors and use.

Children Like To Grow This!
Wash out an empty hard boiled egg shell and get your child to draw on a face.
Fill with damp cotton wool and sow seeds on the surface.
Treat as above and in a few days you will have a 'Cress Head'.
Alternatively, cut up egg boxes and join the cells of the egg box together to make 'Cress Caterpillars'.

Pricing

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General Information

A Note About Our Seed Packets & Seed Counts
Information on Victoriana's method of packeting seed, including information on the seed packets. Also details on Victoriana's seed guarantee.

Magazine Articles

Get Your Kids Into Gardening
An article about encouraging children to garden written by Stephen Shirley that appeared in Grow Your Own magazine

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