Organic Cress Seeds before soaking

Organic Cress Sprouts after 3 days

Organic Cress Sprouts after 6 days

Organic Cress Seeds for Sprouts og Microgreens

You can grow organic Cress seeds for sprouts and microgreens in your kitchen all year.

NAMES

Cress sprouts and microgreens are also known as pepperwort or tower mustard. The Latin name for this variety is Lepidium sativum.

TASTE

Cress has a strong taste of spicy cress as both sprout and microgreens. The taste is more ’round’ the more light, you give the plants.

LOOKS

Cress is a fragile looking little sprout. As a mature sprout it is 9 cm long from root tip to leaf top. As a microgreen it is 18 cm long.

NUTRIENTS

Organic Cress Sprouts and Microgreens are very nutrient rich. You can find these in your organic plants: B1, B3, B6, E, Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Zinc, Selenium.

EDIBLE PARTS

Your Cress is delicious as both sprout and microgreen. You cannot eat the roots as they grow in fabric but you can eat the purple/green/white stem and pretty leaves.

TIME

Organic Cress sprouts take 6 days from seed to edible sprout. As microgreens they take 12 days from seed to microgreens ready for harvest and serving for your food.

Organic Cress Seeds for Sprouts og Microgreens 

Tips for Organic Cress Seeds for Sprouts og Microgreens

MOISTURE

Homegrown Cress is a sturdy sprout. Even so it is important that you keep the cotton or hemp mat constantly moist durling the whole cultivation.

Fortunately this is very easy as you can simply give the fabric under the seeds a little water morning and evening.

Then your plants will grow well.

TASTE

Cress is especially strong in their taste, the younger the plant.

If you find the taste too much, simply let the plants grow a little longer. You may also place them in a lighter spot.

This combination will soften the taste of your Cress wether you grow it on cotton or hemp mat.

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Organic Cress Seeds for Microgreens

Organic Cress seeds for Microgreens is an easy plant, that you will have much joy of growing yourself as it is very easy. The seeds have the Latin name of Lepidium sativum. Cress is also called Pepperwort or Tower mustard.

Vitamins and minerals in Cress

Organic Cress Microgreens are very nutrient rich. They contain the vitamins: B1, B3, B6, E and the minerals Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Zinc, Selenium.

Moisture for Cress

Even though Cress seeds form gel they still must not dry out during your cultivation. If they dry out, the seeds and/or plants will wither. So keep the cotton woll or hemp mat constantly moist durling the whole cultivation. Fortunately this is very easy as you can simply give the fabric or grow mat under the seeds a little water morning and evening. Then your plants will grow well for you.

Taste and use in food

Your home-grown Cress microgreens have a nicely round taste of cress. The taste is milder in the bigger microgreens than in the small sprouts. This is nice if you find the traditional cress taste a little too much. I personally enjoy cress in any size as spicy topping in salad, sandwiches, wraps and dips.

Cultivation time of organic Cress seeds for Microgreens

You can grow your organic Cress seeds into either sprouts or microgreens. If your kitchen temperature is 18-23 ° C / 64-73 ° F, your Cress sprouts should be ready for harvest after 6 days of cultivation. At the same temperature, they should have grown to mature microgreens after a total of 12 days.

Cultivation device for Cress microgreens

As Cress is a gelling – mucilaginous – seed, they need to grow on a special substrate. Because of this a Hemp mat or Organic Cotton Woll is needed under the seeds. The substrate is needed to grow both Cress sprouts and microgreens. See Hemp mat.

Microgreens need light and fertilizer

If you grow Cress Microgreens, then the plants need artificial light and extra fertilizer from day 7 of the cultivation. Under MICRO KIT you can find descriptions about the right amount of light and fertilizer for Microgreens when you use each product. Visit Micro Kit.

I have also written different blog articles about microgreens. Those may interest you and give you tips for succes.
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