Vegetables
Watercress
Nasturtium officinale
Packaged watercress is pricey and does not last long, so why not grow your own? An ideal crop for a container in the shade. Just keep the soil moist and you can harvest your own fresh, vitamin-rich leaves for healthy salads and soups throughout summer. Grows in containers.
- Position
- Partial shade
- Height
- 15cm
- Spread
- 15cm
Growing calendar
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Sow indoors
Sow outdoors
Harvest
Sowing & growing
Sow inside March-April. Press seeds into moist seed compost. Ideal temperature for germination is 16-18°C. Pot up seedlings into individual containers when large enough to handle and plant outside when risk of frost has passed. Sow directly outside April-May. Keep soil moist at all times and space the seedlings to 10cm apart.
Aftercare
Remove any flowerheads as they appear and cut back to 5 cm to let the plant regenerate
Gallery
Ref. SEW001