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ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 13 Nov 2011 13:40

Watercress! It is sometimes difficult to obtain fresh watercress and therefore find oursleves buying packets of cress in the supermarkets at £1.

Reading OH's Allotments Magazine this morning, they recommend growing your own from April to October in one of the following a pot standing in tray of water or a growbag (no drainage holes in it) and keeping damp. Buy some water cress and after snipin off tops are left with cuttings which you can then root. Harvest by only taking the tops as plants will then throw out other shoots.

Watercress must be the most expensive veg to buy - price per weight!. I hate lettuce but adore cress and it has more iron apparently than spinach which I loathe!