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9 tips for growing watercress Cress Plant, Fall Perennials, Amaryllis Bulbs, Fall Bulbs, Home Grown Vegetables, Seed Shop, Vegetable Seeds, Bountiful Harvest, Watercress

Words: Jenny Somervell Watercress can be grown in pots, is surprisingly hardy and tolerates being frozen. 9 TIPS FOR GROWING WATERCRESS 1. Ideally watercress likes to be in a fresh running stream but that’s a big ask for most home gardens. I’ve heard it grows well under a dripping tap. I can’t see why not, provided there is free drainage (it dislikes stagnant water), and dripping taps abound in my garden, one of the many not-yet-got-around-to-it jobs. 2. Watercress can also be grown in pots…

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Looking back in history, there is a lot to learn about cress and watercress as food plants and as medicinal herbs, and even how to grow cress in containers. Clover Lawns, Garlic Seeds, Ornamental Kale, Corn Seed, Sprouting Seeds, Nigella Seeds, Bee Garden, Covered Garden, Garden Harvest

Cress (sometimes called garden cress, garden pepper cress, pepperwort, or pepper grass) is a leafy annual herb from the Brassica family. It is harvested when immature, around one to two weeks after germination, but will grow to a height of around 60cm (24”) if left undisturbed, and then form racemes of white flowers followed by small seedpods.

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A matter of time. Plant defences are well clocked. Small Flowering Plants, Education Day, Tiny Plants, Science News, Biotechnology, Growing Food, Botany, Science And Technology, Biology

Time management isn’t just important for busy people -- it’s critical for plants, too. A Duke University study shows how two biological clocks work together to help plants deal with intermittent demands such as fungal infections, while maintaining an already-packed daily schedule of activities like growth.The researchers also identified a gene that senses disturbances in the “tick-tock” of one clock, and causes the other clock to tighten its timetable.

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