This and chickpeas was the first thing we learned to grow at school. Been years since I had it but on a cracker with soft cheese and cue, bloody delish. A tub is just 25p a large box is 70p. Imo it's a great looking little plant, I used it in a rockery. No sowing no care, just tossed the seeds and watered 3 times a week.
I think the best way is to leave a slight lip between soil and top of pot. That way you can just run the knife right across the surface of the pot for a perfect harvest
What a great, clear, concise tutorial! I just got my seeds from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, but I saved your everwilde link since I'm from Wisconsin :) even though I live in central florida. I'm going to try the grow once and harvest method, and the cut and come again method, to see what works in my windowsill. I have four huge organic beds outside, and just want something nutritious, quick, and well, non-labor intensive like my other crops. I've got no greens at all now, and miss them terribly. Watercress seems like a super-nutritious option to grow indoors where it's kinda sorta almost cool-ish. Thanks for the very best video - I'll check out your others, too.
Thank you soo much for your great in depth info. Do you also not rinse the microgreens when selling commercially? How do you know how much would be too much soil in the harvested microgreens that would be unsafe? Thank you
In the beginning of the video, you said at times you grow them beyond microgreen size and use them for soup, would you please make a short video on how you do this. When I tried to grow past the microgreen size, they get leggy and fall over. Thanks!
Great video! Would you please share why you prefer soil versus hydroponics for growing watercress? Thank you and I appreciate your time in making this tutorial. God bless you!
Yo ykno appreciate you making this video, few questions, where do you store your pre mixed soil? Do you cover it? Also is the soil after the fact useful? Or should you just dispose of it?
I prefer soil because I grow my micros a bit longer than most, and they start to actually pull nutrition from the soil. I'd rather not supplement with hydroponic nutrients when soil does just fine!
I've found that if you grow cress in anything other than a soil that contains nutrients you will harvest nothing but green scraps. Paper towel or cotton wool as a growing medium are for primary school kids!
Would you be able to show us Chervil microgreens? I know they can be a little more difficult but it would be nice to see it done in detail by an experienced Gardner such as yourself. Cheers !
wonder if we can put a little bit of hydrogen peroxide in a spray bottle with lots of water and keep them lightly misted to avoid the mold.........please answer if you can, or anyone out there that has tried this please comment........thanks
No holes. In this case the purpose of aluminum foil is to block out all light and is used only temporarily untill adequate germination. This process can be achieved with other methods and means. With the goal of blocking out light.
What do you do with garden cress? is it used like pepper? We have a good amount of it in the garden right now, and the plants are about half the size before they go to seed, which we collected tons of seeds from in the spring and summer already from just a few plants.
I have recently started getting into the world of planting and cress was the first microgreen I chose to grow. The main reason I was drawn to planting cress seeds was the speed as which it grows. Does anyone know of anything else that grows at approximately this speed?
This is years late but I hope you found radish grows within 2-3 weeks I believe to grow from seeds until harvest. I just started herb planting. How is your garden coming along within the 2 years of this comment?
Fuuu, I just bought a kilogram of this stuff thinking I could just sprout in a jar like I do with broccoli seeds. But after soaking them they became slimy. Your technique seems way too work intensive and I don’t see myself doing it more than once. Thanks for the info.
You're not supposed to soak them. In the video he clearly states a couple times that you lightly mist/spray them just enough to keep them hydrated, and no more, as to not grow mold.
Garden cress self seeds amazingly, it just takes a few plants to double your seed supply~ They are a brassica, but they are a very tiny plant in comparison to other brassicas.
That however is not water cress, its garden cress (a different type), it does not contain the same nutrients of watercress. I do grow both garden and watercress, but while garden cress its easy and fast, watercress is quite complicated. It is very fragile while young.
Yes you are right, OUNCES are confusing. In Europe the terminology is more sensible: Volume = Millilitres and Litres, Weight = Grams and Kilos. One day, America will maybe standardise to the European protocol for these two measurements which will avoid any confusion!
Hi I'm having trouble growing my Cress microgreens. The roots keep growing above the soil rather than down into the soil and my cress germinates lying down rather than growing upwards. The cress seeds are also very gel like and keep sticking to each other thus when germinating the stems all get matted and stuck to each other. How do I fix this?
What variety of cress? Upland cress (Barbarea verna) is not watercress (Nasturtium Officinale). Looks like Upland cress. Paper towel between seeds & soil can reduce soil contamination when harvesting.
Hey, what do you do with the soil once you've harvested? I know nothing about soil so if anyone could recommend any videos that would be much appreciated.
Really fabulous video!! I've been wanting to grow water cress and like the idea of cress microgreens even more.
Thank you!
Scissors would make the harvesting easier
This was a very helpful video and I truly appreciate it
This and chickpeas was the first thing we learned to grow at school. Been years since I had it but on a cracker with soft cheese and cue, bloody delish.
A tub is just 25p a large box is 70p.
Imo it's a great looking little plant, I used it in a rockery. No sowing no care, just tossed the seeds and watered 3 times a week.
I defnitely agree that it looks good, it looks nice
I cut water bottles in half and grow them in my office. and use sissors to harvest. your vid is good.
Thanks - that's a great technique as well.
I think the best way is to leave a slight lip between soil and top of pot. That way you can just run the knife right across the surface of the pot for a perfect harvest
Yup, that is correct. About 1/4" or so
What a great, clear, concise tutorial! I just got my seeds from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, but I saved your everwilde link since I'm from Wisconsin :) even though I live in central florida. I'm going to try the grow once and harvest method, and the cut and come again method, to see what works in my windowsill. I have four huge organic beds outside, and just want something nutritious, quick, and well, non-labor intensive like my other crops. I've got no greens at all now, and miss them terribly. Watercress seems like a super-nutritious option to grow indoors where it's kinda sorta almost cool-ish. Thanks for the very best video - I'll check out your others, too.
Definitely let me know how it goes! Watercress is such a fantastic food. Makes a wonderful soup, too.
Thank you soo much for your great in depth info. Do you also not rinse the microgreens when selling commercially? How do you know how much would be too much soil in the harvested microgreens that would be unsafe? Thank you
They've become extremely expensive in the grocery stores! Your yield looks beautiful!
Wonderful video on the cress microgreens I like to eat them. I would like to see a video on growing Valerian from seed please
Thank you! I'll see what I can do to get a valerian video up :)
Thank you. Great video.
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How did you actually begin these? I missed that! They’re beautiful!
can you use just coconut coir and maybe vermiculite too?
I got 15000 cres seeds and I'm going to do this. Could one use scisors to harvest? I don't have a samuri knife 😞
In the beginning of the video, you said at times you grow them beyond microgreen size and use them for soup, would you please make a short video on how you do this. When I tried to grow past the microgreen size, they get leggy and fall over. Thanks!
My best friend, Great... We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks Have a happy day
Will it grow back once you've harvested, or is it a one-time only deal?
Loved this video, super helpful! Thanks!
This is a perfect tutorial. I am going to get right to it. Thank you!!
I can't wait to do this, I sure hope mine do not mold....
Good ECC 3:12 harvest. 👍👍Once you cut the tops can they re grow again?
Can you do a video growing Cress without soil using cotton or paper towels please thanks
Great video! Would you please share why you prefer soil versus hydroponics for growing watercress? Thank you and I appreciate your time in making this tutorial. God bless you!
I personally find it tastes better! I also find it's a bit easier to grow in soil than hydroponically when it comes to water retention.
Epic Gardening I see! Thank you for your response! Looking forward to more videos from you!
May I know your reasons for not liking hydroponic way of growing ?
curled cress is not watercress. watercress is a lot more expensive and nutritious
Great video, thanks!
Do you have an update on Growing Water Cress 💁🏻♀️❓
I was told that you can get a second harvest from them if you let them grow longer.
How are you watering? Bottom water necessary? And how often. Love the channel btw.
What a easy and clean way to grow watercress indoor! But what do you do with the soil, can it be recycle? Thx!
The best way I know of to recycle the soil is to add it into a compost bin or tumbler and let it go through a cycle before reusing.
Can you only harvest once or will this do multiple harvest
What do you do with roots, regrow it or?
Yo ykno appreciate you making this video, few questions, where do you store your pre mixed soil? Do you cover it? Also is the soil after the fact useful? Or should you just dispose of it?
Do they regrow ? Like lettuce .. or we have to put new seeds ?
ITS AMAZING FOR EYES!!!! I"m going to grow some for me and my 100lb akita
Good luck!
Excellent. Will order and grow. Thank you!🎯✅💥
Great to hear Don!
Thank you! Coconut..what was it? In reference to the soil. And are there drainage holes at the bottom of the small container?
Can I grow it in cococoir only?
Thank You
Wonderful information
What's your reasoning for not liking to grow in a hydroponic grow medium?
I prefer soil because I grow my micros a bit longer than most, and they start to actually pull nutrition from the soil. I'd rather not supplement with hydroponic nutrients when soil does just fine!
Can we just use coconut coir without the soil?
Wat to do with rest of the stems left in the container? Will it grow leaves again?plz answer..
Do you just throw the plant away after you're done harvesting? Or does it regrow?
Cool video. Is there a way to just sprout the cress without soil or other media like paper towel or cotton?
Yup, you can totally do that and eat them as sprouts instead of microgreens!
I've found that if you grow cress in anything other than a soil that contains nutrients you will harvest nothing but green scraps. Paper towel or cotton wool as a growing medium are for primary school kids!
Epic Gardening
Can I do same thing in parsley seeds?
do you dispose of the soil and roots after the harvest? thanks and awesome video
I do, but it's not necessary. I know a commercial grower that composts all of his spent soil in a huge outdoor heap - I just don't have the space!
Would you be able to show us Chervil microgreens? I know they can be a little more difficult but it would be nice to see it done in detail by an experienced Gardner such as yourself. Cheers !
I'll do that soon!
wonder if we can put a little bit of hydrogen peroxide in a spray bottle with lots of water and keep them lightly misted to avoid the mold.........please answer if you can, or anyone out there that has tried this please comment........thanks
What’s the shelf life of seeds? Should I store them in my freezer to prolong viability?
Can I freeze them and put them in a smoothie?
do you reuse the soil?
The rootsystem regrow new ones or must you trow that away and seed anew?
Hey great video! I never had grown this plant and I am about to, when you harvest does the cress grow back?
It does a bit, but if you cut it off completely it 1. takes a while and 2. isn't as pretty looking. I usually cut once only :)
Balkony grow ftw!!!
Yup!
When you say covering with Aluminum foil what do you mean by cut ? Do we make holes ?
No holes. In this case the purpose of aluminum foil is to block out all light and is used only temporarily untill adequate germination. This process can be achieved with other methods and means. With the goal of blocking out light.
What do you do with garden cress? is it used like pepper? We have a good amount of it in the garden right now, and the plants are about half the size before they go to seed, which we collected tons of seeds from in the spring and summer already from just a few plants.
Taste great on a sandwich 👌🏻 bread with spread
Are these watercress please ?
I don't think you can keep cress for 10 days. You'll end up with a bowl of green slime.
I use aquaponics. the fish provide all nutrients!
Yup, it's a GREAT method!
I have recently started getting into the world of planting and cress was the first microgreen I chose to grow. The main reason I was drawn to planting cress seeds was the speed as which it grows. Does anyone know of anything else that grows at approximately this speed?
This is years late but I hope you found radish grows within 2-3 weeks I believe to grow from seeds until harvest. I just started herb planting. How is your garden coming along within the 2 years of this comment?
Broccoli sprouts are super easy
Is there a difference between Cress FINE CURLED seeds and WaterCress Seeds?
I am wondering the same thing and hope you get an answer, as the seeds I have (WaterCress) are much smaller than these...super tiny!
Yes there's a difference. They are not the same.
I have missed it how do u water it best after its sproudted?
can you grow pot marigold and also, is it ok to leave cress for 6 weeks
Fuuu, I just bought a kilogram of this stuff thinking I could just sprout in a jar like I do with broccoli seeds. But after soaking them they became slimy. Your technique seems way too work intensive and I don’t see myself doing it more than once. Thanks for the info.
You're not supposed to soak them. In the video he clearly states a couple times that you lightly mist/spray them just enough to keep them hydrated, and no more, as to not grow mold.
@@justinw1765 Got it. Thanks for the correction.
Hey Kevin have you tried cutting from the bottom up instead? Another good video.
How do you mean?
Oh, I get it - tried, but prefer to see the cut line!
Are the seed husks toxic??
Can you take seeds from them to plant new ones in order to be self sufficient with the cress?
Garden cress self seeds amazingly, it just takes a few plants to double your seed supply~ They are a brassica, but they are a very tiny plant in comparison to other brassicas.
That however is not water cress, its garden cress (a different type), it does not contain the same nutrients of watercress. I do grow both garden and watercress, but while garden cress its easy and fast, watercress is quite complicated. It is very fragile while young.
Where did you get the cress seeds?
everwilde.com/
When you plant a 10 x 20 tray, how many seeds do you use approximately? Oz ... ml.. tbs. ??? Thank you. Great video
Around 1oz for this seed
I have a hard time growing garden cress to full maturities outside
How to grow common cress and can we regrow them somehow and how
When you talk of planting so many ounces of seeds is that volume or weight?
Yes you are right, OUNCES are confusing. In Europe the terminology is more sensible: Volume = Millilitres and Litres, Weight = Grams and Kilos. One day, America will maybe standardise to the European protocol for these two measurements which will avoid any confusion!
Is harvesting the end of the life of the plant?
do u have to remove the roots in order to plant more seeds? how do i grow more in same container?
I don't re-use soil, I always use fresh for the next round of microgreens.
Hi I'm having trouble growing my Cress microgreens. The roots keep growing above the soil rather than down into the soil and my cress germinates lying down rather than growing upwards. The cress seeds are also very gel like and keep sticking to each other thus when germinating the stems all get matted and stuck to each other. How do I fix this?
What variety of cress? Upland cress (Barbarea verna) is not watercress (Nasturtium Officinale). Looks like Upland cress.
Paper towel between seeds & soil can reduce soil contamination when harvesting.
I wish you had showed the whole process of everything you used..
It seems to me that you have strong bleaching (yellow instead of green) due to the lack of sunlight during germination.
Thank you
Can you make a video on spinach please 😁
Have you grown Fenugreek seeds? (Methi seeds?)
Not yet, no!
Why do you prefer soil to hydroponics?
They grow better + flavor is improved in my opinion
@@epicgardening Is there any difference in nutrient density with soiless mediums?
will the plant continue growing？
If you cut it off near the bottom of the stem, they won't keep growing - gotta plant a new batch!
Hey, what do you do with the soil once you've harvested? I know nothing about soil so if anyone could recommend any videos that would be much appreciated.
I compost it and recycle it that way
Epic Gardening thank you for sharing. Does it mean that once harvested, it doesn’t grow back? I have to start all over again?
go u have to feed these at all?
Nope!
Is this the same as Watercress? Tysm🌿🌱🍃 I wasn't sure and was confused 😂
Really appreciate your reply! Tysm!🌿🌱
Great channel! Thank you :)
Thanks for watching, means the world to me
Mine are growing like weeds!
loled at the "nongmo" 😂 like there is a gmo option for water cress 🤣
I think these are cress microgreens rather than watercress.
Correct!
How about using scissors to harvest them?
'I can hear them screaming as I do this'
SCISSORS! i just use scissors
Works too!
Um this stuff is peppery. A little of this goes a long way, I made the mistake of planting a 2010 tray.
I made one at school and his name is James and he's 5 😛😝😜😚
:)
scissors would cut much better and you wouldn't have any debris
I've since switched to scissors / shears
That's good. I couldn't understand why u were doing this with a knife, lol, and I'm a chef.
Thanks how to grow coriander
what do I do? We have no aluminum foil, would aluminium foil work? lol
I use scissors