On Jun 23, 9:42 pm, Rusty Hinge 2
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from Pam Moore contains these words:

Is it possible to grow watercress without running water? Has anyone
tried, and if so how can it be done? Pieces of bought watercress will
root in water, but is there a way of growing them on? I often end up
wasting the last of a packet.

You can grow it in rows like most other vegetables - but keep the ground
moist.

Don't grow it in stagnant water as it can pick up nasties.

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Rusty
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Rusty you live in Norfolk, do you remember many years ago that the IFR
(or maybe it was Ins. John Innes?) did research on watercress and that
the results were disturbing, I'm sure it reached the Eastern Daily
Press at the time?

Judith

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:58:20 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

Is it possible to grow watercress without running water? Has anyone
tried, and if so how can it be done? Pieces of bought watercress will
root in water, but is there a way of growing them on? I often end up
wasting the last of a packet.

Thanks for all advice and info. I have ordered some land cress seeds!


Pam in Bristol

"Pam Moore" wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:58:20 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

Is it possible to grow watercress without running water? Has anyone
tried, and if so how can it be done? Pieces of bought watercress will
root in water, but is there a way of growing them on? I often end up
wasting the last of a packet.

Thanks for all advice and info. I have ordered some land cress seeds!



Here is some more info/advice about watercress, which you may find
interesting

http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=264

On 24 Jun, 10:07, "BAC" wrote:
"Pam Moore" wrote in message

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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:58:20 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

Is it possible to grow watercress without running water? Has anyone
tried, and if so how can it be done? Pieces of bought watercress will
root in water, but is there a way of growing them on? I often end up
wasting the last of a packet.

Thanks for all advice and info. I have ordered some land cress seeds!

Here is some more info/advice about watercress, which you may find
interesting

http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=264

Marshalls sell watercress seed. It is very easy to grow in a pot,
provided you keep it a basin of water all the time.

Jonathan

On 24 Jun, 10:07, "BAC" wrote:
"Pam Moore" wrote in message

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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:58:20 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

Is it possible to grow watercress without running water? Has anyone
tried, and if so how can it be done? Pieces of bought watercress will
root in water, but is there a way of growing them on? I often end up
wasting the last of a packet.

Thanks for all advice and info. I have ordered some land cress seeds!

Here is some more info/advice about watercress, which you may find
interesting

http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=264

Marshalls sell watercress seed. It is very easy to grow in a pot
provided you keep the pot in a basin of water.

Jonathan

On Jun 24, 10:54 am, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:48:07 -0700 (PDT), Judith in France



wrote:
On Jun 23, 10:49 pm, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:27:33 -0700 (PDT), Judith in France

wrote:
On Jun 23, 8:30 pm, K wrote:
Stewart Robert Hinsley writes

In message , Pam Moore
writes
Is it possible to grow watercress without running water? Has anyone
tried, and if so how can it be done? Pieces of bought watercress will
root in water, but is there a way of growing them on? I often end up
wasting the last of a packet.

If I'm not mistaking some other white-flowered crucifer for
water-cress, then some of the localities that I've seen it growing wild
are standing water rather than running water.

It's not the watercress that is fussy about the water.

It is an intermediate host for liverfluke, and it's thought that it is
less likely to be infected in running water than in still water.

Watercress is a useful way of decreasing the nitrogen level (and hence
blanket weed) in garden ponds - chuck a handful in, wait for it to grow
massivley, then heave most of it out and compost it. Repeat.
--
Kay

My Edward, not your's Kay, is always on about liverfluke and
watercress and he won't eat it!!!! I do and my liver is fine.

Maybe your Edward read a long Guardian article about liver fluke & water cress
long ago. I didn't know anybody who read it at the time who ever ate watercress
again.
--

Martin

Edward is not a Guardian reader, he always read the Times until he got
a bit fed up with the politics and now, when in England, the
Independent and here, he reads a French Newspaper.

If I remember correctly it was something to do with some research that
was being done at IFR that disturbed him and he felt that buying water
cress was unsafe as he didn't know the origin. I presume he would be
quite happy to grow it himself provided there was continually running
water.

In the Times online archive, I found a news report from 1913, that the health
officer in a London borough thought watercress was a possible source of typhus.

The online archive is a good read. I didn't know that during WWII Craven-A
cigarette smokers were supposed to leave the packet at the tobacconist so that
it could be re-used or that the Nazi Admiral who was thought to be in charge of
Hungary had been sacked by Hitler in 1942 and had spent the rest of the war
growing vegetables (ON TOPIC ALERT) in his garden in Garmisch Pattenkirchen.
--
e
Martin

LOL All before I was born, I might take a look but Wimbledon beckons
- which means my poor eyes will be square again.

Judith

In article ,
Martin writes:
| On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:34:29 -0700 (PDT), Judith in France
| wrote:
|
| LOL All before I was born, I might take a look but Wimbledon beckons
| - which means my poor eyes will be square again.
|
| I hope you can cope with Wimbledon being on BBC 1 and BBC 2 and half of
| Europe's other TV channels simultaneously.

I shall be incommunicado in the Highlands for a week, which is exactly
the sort of place I want to be over Wimbledon (or the Olympics).


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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from Judith in France contains these words:

My Edward, not your's Kay, is always on about liverfluke and
watercress and he won't eat it!!!! I do and my liver is fine.

Ah, but could that be some sort of fluke?

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Rusty
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The message
from Judith in France contains these words:

Rusty you live in Norfolk, do you remember many years ago that the IFR
(or maybe it was Ins. John Innes?) did research on watercress and that
the results were disturbing, I'm sure it reached the Eastern Daily
Press at the time?

I don't remember, but it doesn't surprise me.

I've been growing watercress in soil for years, and it just keeps
re-seeding itself.

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Rusty
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The message

from Jonathan contains these words:

Marshalls sell watercress seed. It is very easy to grow in a pot,
provided you keep it a basin of water all the time.

I've been growing it in a big trough for years, and just water it from
time to time. There's no need to keep it really wet.

--
Rusty
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:11:02 +0100, Rusty Hinge 2
wrote:

The message

from Jonathan contains these words:

Marshalls sell watercress seed. It is very easy to grow in a pot,
provided you keep it a basin of water all the time.

I've been growing it in a big trough for years, and just water it from
time to time. There's no need to keep it really wet.

Can you just cut it and it grows again?

Pam in Bristol

The message
from Pam Moore contains these words:

I've been growing it in a big trough for years, and just water it from
time to time. There's no need to keep it really wet.

Can you just cut it and it grows again?

Yes.

It doesn't grow so quickly as cress in water, though.

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Rusty
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"K" wrote in message
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Watercress is a useful way of decreasing the nitrogen level (and hence
blanket weed) in garden ponds - chuck a handful in, wait for it to grow
massivley, then heave most of it out and compost it. Repeat.
--
Kay

Our pond water is very clear despite being full of dead vegetation (we
really must get round to cleaning it out ... ) but the water is clear as
clear, presumably because it's covered in duckweed.

Every day I pull out four large handfuls and line them up for the hens, who
love the weed and the things in it. Of course they all three go to one of
the heaps!

Just wondered - is duckweed edible for humans?

Mary

"Judith in France" wrote in message
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On Jun 23, 10:49 pm, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:27:33 -0700 (PDT), Judith in France



wrote:
On Jun 23, 8:30 pm, K wrote:
Stewart Robert Hinsley writes

In message , Pam Moore
writes
Is it possible to grow watercress without running water? Has anyone
tried, and if so how can it be done? Pieces of bought watercress
will
root in water, but is there a way of growing them on? I often end
up
wasting the last of a packet.

If I'm not mistaking some other white-flowered crucifer for
water-cress, then some of the localities that I've seen it growing
wild
are standing water rather than running water.

It's not the watercress that is fussy about the water.

It is an intermediate host for liverfluke, and it's thought that it is
less likely to be infected in running water than in still water.

Watercress is a useful way of decreasing the nitrogen level (and hence
blanket weed) in garden ponds - chuck a handful in, wait for it to
grow
massivley, then heave most of it out and compost it. Repeat.
--
Kay

My Edward, not your's Kay, is always on about liverfluke and
watercress and he won't eat it!!!! I do and my liver is fine.

Maybe your Edward read a long Guardian article about liver fluke & water
cress
long ago. I didn't know anybody who read it at the time who ever ate
watercress
again.
--

Martin

Edward is not a Guardian reader, he always read the Times until he got
a bit fed up with the politics and now, when in England, the
Independent and here, he reads a French Newspaper.

If I remember correctly it was something to do with some research that
was being done at IFR that disturbed him and he felt that buying water
cress was unsafe as he didn't know the origin. I presume he would be
quite happy to grow it himself provided there was continually running
water.

Judith

The link with liver fluke was known a very long time ago, I was taught it in
my first year of biology when I was eleven. That's a very long time ago :-)

Mary

"Adrian" wrote in message
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HI Pam

Pam Moore wrote:
Is it possible to grow watercress without running water? Has anyone
tried, and if so how can it be done? Pieces of bought watercress will
root in water, but is there a way of growing them on? I often end up
wasting the last of a packet.




If you like the taste of cress but don't have a convenient source of
water - then try 'Land cress' (seeds from Thompson & Morgan, and probably
other suppliers).

I'm not sure what it is botanically... but it looks like watercress
(leaves a little smaller), tastes the same, and likes moist soil, rather
than to be sat in water.
We have some in the polytunnel - and it overwinters nicely..

Grows roots along its stems, like cress, so taking cuttings is easy..

Yes, it's an excellent substitute. As long as you keep it away from the hens
:-)

Mary