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- Cress self-replant - this is how you harvest seeds
- To increase cress in your own garden
- Keep cress seeds
- Cress on the windowsill to bloom
- Tips & Tricks
Cress self-replant - this is how you harvest seeds
For cress lovers, the question is whether they can not multiply the cress themselves, instead of always buying new seed bags. If you have a garden, it is easy to win your own cress seed.
To increase cress in your own garden
In order to obtain seeds from your own cress plants, sow cress in the cress bed in the garden in early summer. Let the plants stand so that flowers can form.
The flowers develop after just a few weeks. After blooming it grows small pods in which the seeds ripen.
If the pods have darkened, the seeds are ripe for the propagation of cress. Pick the pods, shake out the seeds and let them dry.
Keep cress seeds
The dried seed comes in a paper bag. Do not forget to label the bag and also note the year of the harvest.
Store the bag in a dry, dark place until you want to sow the seeds in the garden or on the windowsill.
Cress seeds remain viable for up to four years.
Cress on the windowsill to bloom
If you do not have your own garden, it will be difficult to get the cress to bloom. The light conditions on the windowsill are usually not so good that the plants start to bloom. Mostly the shoots go crazy, which means that they become very long and dry.
If you want to try to make the cress bloom in the house, you should only use cress that you have sown in the spring or early summer. Then there is the greatest chance that flowers form.
But do not be disappointed if you harvest only a few seeds despite the time-consuming care. It is usually easier to buy the seed in the supermarket or garden shop.
Tips & Tricks
If you need a lot of cress seeds, because you often use cress in the kitchen, ask once at large garden shops or in the health food store. There, cress seeds are also sold by the kilo.