Mr Fothergills Mustard & Cress Seed (1)

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Fresh and peppery, mustard cress is ideal in sandwiches and salads for added kick or also great as a garnish. If you want something a bit milder, look for oilseed rape (canola) seeds – they can be grown the same way. A delicious salad and sandwich ingredient, Mustard Cress takes up little space and a very small amount of your time. Public Notice: We have become aware that some SEO companies are redirecting domains not owned by us to this site.

I'm a peat-free, organic gardener, but I'm also fascinated by hydroponics and the more high-tech ways of feeding people. This is one of a series of articles on basic gardening that I have put together for those of you who are just starting out. To boost the nutritional value of microgreens include extra-virgin olive oil with your meal as the presence of oil helps improve the bioavailability of the fat-soluble nutrients in microgreens (carotenoids, vitamin E, and vitamin K).Raw cress is 89% water, 6% carbohydrates (including 1% dietary fiber), 3% protein and less than 1% fat (table). If you wash out empty eggshells, you can draw faces on the front and grow ‘egglings’ with cress hair! If you want to grow mustard and cress to harvest them at the same time, then you need to sow the mustard 3-4 days ahead, because mustard seedlings grow faster. Sometimes especially in the organic range we are lucky enough to spot the true mustard and cress and supply this whenever possible. Garden cress, known as chandrashoor, and the seeds, known as aaliv or aleev in Marathi, or halloon [11] in India, are commonly used in the system of Ayurveda.

Mustard can be grown in trays of compost or on the surface of pads of cotton wool, flannel, kitchen towel etc. Cress ( Lepidium sativum), sometimes referred to as garden cress (or curly cress) to distinguish it from similar plants also referred to as cress (from old Germanic cresso which means sharp, spicy), is a rather fast-growing, edible herb.

It is also eaten as sprouts, and the fresh or dried seed pods can be used as a peppery seasoning ( haloon).

Keep the seeds dark until after germination and then move to a warm well lit spot ensuring that the medium stays moist. If it’s the middle of winter and there’s nothing much going on in the vegetable garden, or you want some easy and ultra-fresh salad greens, or a rainy day project to help keep the kids occupied, then try growing mustard and cress!In a 100-gram ( 3 + 1⁄ 2-ounce) reference quantity, raw cress supplies 134 kilojoules (32 kilocalories) of food energy and numerous nutrients in significant content, including vitamin K (516% of the Daily Value, DV), vitamin C (83% DV) and vitamin A (43% DV). Cress, sometimes referred to as garden cress to distinguish it from similar plants also referred to as cress, is a rather fast-growing, edible herb. In some regions, garden cress is known as mustard and cress, garden pepper cress, pepperwort, pepper grass, or poor man's pepper. As a sprouted seed the rape sprout does not look very different but the flavour is unremarkable compared to the old fashioned mix. Mustard Cress is a wonderful ingredient in salads and works well in combination with carpaccio or raw fish.

L. sativum is often used in experiments to teach biology to students in schools; the plant grows readily on damp paper or cotton, and its fast germination and development time makes it useful in demonstrating plant growth. Among dietary minerals, manganese levels are high (26% DV) while several others, including potassium and magnesium, are in moderate content (table).Children find it fascinating to watch it grow as in only a few days it produces healthy and nutritious food.