How To Grow Watercress from seed

Although the natural environment of watercress is amongst slowly moving systems of water, their flower seeds can be germinated in containers much like any other vegetation flower seeds. In fact they are so easy to grow they can even be started off in the house. The only factor you need to create sure of – apart from maintaining them saturated at all periods – is that you are using an alkaline rich compost. This type of rich compost can easily be made up by combining 1 part limestone resolution to 2 parts David Innes flower seeds rich compost.


Start by using nasty containers which have had little gaps (approximately 3-4mm in diameter) drilled into the edges. Complete them with the rich compost mix and force 3 or 4 flower seeds – equally propagate - into the outer lining area to around about an inches wide deep. Complete a appropriate, high-sided package with water and position the planted containers into it. Leave the stage so that it is about ½ to 1 inches wide below the ground stage. Put the package outside in a shiny position, but out of natural light and extreme conditions of heat range. The main factor to remember here is to ensure the ground continues to be saturated at all periods and to change the water for fresh each day to avoid fungus attacks. You can expect to see the new new plants growing at any time from 7-10 days.

After a further 2-3 more weeks in the pot, the new plants should be big enough to be replanted in to their long lasting roles. The best periods of season for this would be at the end of springtime and beginning of fall as this will give them a lot of time to identify before they need to deal with the extreme conditions of summer time and winter heat range ranges. However, so long as their final position allows them to be protected by at least a few inches wide of water throughout the season, they can be placed at almost at any time.

Ideally, you would be growing into a superficial stream or little flow. Just dig a few gaps in the edges of the flow bed, creating sure the gaps are roughly a foot apart. Ensure that that when placed, the simply leaves of your watercress are perfectly sailing on the ocean surface.

If the stream they are being kept in is surrounded - such as a large lake - and fed by a re-circulating force, then as the watercress vegetation naturalise they can be propagate by simply splitting off segments of vegetation - creating sure that they have a healthy main system connected – and enabling them to just to flow around on the ocean surface. There are normally enough nutritional value present in the water (especially if you are maintaining fish) for the vegetation to continue growing without the need to take main and get its nutritional value from the ground.

Harvest your watercress simply leaves as and when you need them from the end of springtime and forward into early summer time. You will have to hang on for delayed fall however if you wish to collect any more, as the simply leaves will become nasty and inedible once the flower comes into flower.