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- Garden cress fully grown: what now?
- Features of full-grown garden cress
- Can adult garden cress be eaten?
- The garden cress is blooming
- Harvest the seeds of garden cress
- Use the seeds of garden cress
- Tips
The garden cress flowers like the watercress often white
Garden cress fully grown: what now?
Garden cress is harvested as a seedling and consumed. But what if the garden cress grows? How tall is she and how does she look then? Can you still eat the full-grown garden cress? Find out!
Features of full-grown garden cress
Garden cress can grow up to 60cm high. It grows straight with long stems and several centimeters long, narrow leaves. The edges of the leaves are slightly hairy. The leaves are not only longer but also thicker and thus more fibrous than those of the seedlings.
Can adult garden cress be eaten?
First of all: garden cress is edible, whether as a seedling or as a mature plant. The fact that you harvest them primarily as a seedling, probably has two reasons:
In general, it is advisable to eat the garden cress before flowering, because the garden cress begins to form flowers, it puts all their power and thus nutrients in this task, so that the leaves contain less nutritional value and often have less flavor.
The garden cress is blooming
Garden cress blooms in the summer, if it was sown in time, usually in July / August. The flowers are white to pink and have cruciferous to exactly four petals. But do not give up your garden cress just because it is blooming. Because after the flowering begins the really exciting part: the training of the seeds. Garden cress is healthy, but the seeds are a true miracle cure! So wait patiently for the garden cress to form seeds.
Harvest the seeds of garden cress
The seeds are ripe when the pods turn yellow and begin to dry. Then proceed as follows:
Use the seeds of garden cress
Garden cress seeds can be ground as a medicine to help with circulatory problems, indigestion or bacterial diseases. One to three times daily one gram is the recommended daily dose to help with health problems to cure.
Tips
Consume one part of the seeds and use another to sow out new seedlings.