Cress ‘Emerald Beads’
Lepidium setatum
Description
Cress is typically marketed as a salad green, however, if allowed to go to seed, it makes a bulletproof, versatile filler. Upright, apple-green panicles are covered with tiny textural beads. Cress is durable and ages well, turning golden at the end of the season. This must-grow variety can be used from midsummer through autumn and can also be dried.
Details
Height: 36 to 40 in
Site: full sun
Days to maturity: 90 days
Plant spacing: 12 in
Pinch: do not pinch
Seed Sowing & Growing Notes
Start seed indoors in trays 4 to 6 weeks before last frost; transplant out after all danger of frost has passed, or direct-seed as soon as the ground can be worked. Succession-plant every 2 weeks for continual harvest. Don’t pinch plants.
Harvesting/Vase Life
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Description
Cress is typically marketed as a salad green, however, if allowed to go to seed, it makes a bulletproof, versatile filler. Upright, apple-green panicles are covered with tiny textural beads. Cress is durable and ages well, turning golden at the end of the season. This must-grow variety can be used from midsummer through autumn and can also be dried.
Details
Height: 36 to 40 in
Site: full sun
Days to maturity: 90 days
Plant spacing: 12 in
Pinch: do not pinch
Seed Sowing & Growing Notes
Start seed indoors in trays 4 to 6 weeks before last frost; transplant out after all danger of frost has passed, or direct-seed as soon as the ground can be worked. Succession-plant every 2 weeks for continual harvest. Don’t pinch plants.
Harvesting/Vase Life
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How to Grow
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