GARDENCRESS

Species: Cress
Latin name: Lepidium sativum L.
Other usual name: Garden Pepper Cress - Pepper Grass - Pepperwort
Variety: Gardencress
Family: Crucifères - (Brassicacae)
Origin: North Africa and Central Asia

The Garden Cress: Rustic annual variety easy to cultivate, the leave are cut and of an oval almost round form. Its taste is marked and very pleasant peppery, tangy flavor and aroma. Excellent to raise salads, in soups or like condiment, cooked braised to accompany fish. Cress is very rich in vitamins C and E and contains iron, iodine, and calcium.

Seed sowing: Early spring or in fall
Harvest Cress: 1 to 2 months later
Height: Cress reaches on average 15 to 25 cm
Exposure: Sunny - Middleshade

Sowing instructions: 1.) Sow cress seeds directly in place as soon as any danger of frost are isolated, sowing possible from October if it's carried out under greenhouse. 2.) Sow in trays in a well worked and humid soil in rows and space them 15 cm to 20 cm. The first possible harvest 1 to 2 months later.

Sowing distance: 15 x 20 cm in rows
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 18 °C to 20°C
Seed germination: 5 to 7 days
Nutritional value: 32 Kcal for 100 gr.

Net weight of seeds: 20 gr. = +/- 8000 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.