Mr Fothergills Mustard & Cress Seed (1)

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In some regions, garden cress is known as mustard and cress, garden pepper cress, pepperwort, pepper grass, or poor man's pepper. A delicious salad and sandwich ingredient, Mustard Cress takes up little space and a very small amount of your time. Among dietary minerals, manganese levels are high (26% DV) while several others, including potassium and magnesium, are in moderate content (table). You can crowd them in – they’re not going to grow big enough to need any space, and you want plenty to harvest.

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. 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. Mustard Cress is a wonderful ingredient in salads and works well in combination with carpaccio or raw fish. Whilst every care has been taken to ensure this information is correct, the data contained here has been supplied by the respective brand owners and Creed Foodservice is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of this data.If you wash out empty eggshells, you can draw faces on the front and grow ‘egglings’ with cress hair!

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. Place the growing medium in a small container or saucer and moisten well, then spread the seed thickly over the surface. 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. As a sprouted seed the rape sprout does not look very different but the flavour is unremarkable compared to the old fashioned mix. Sometimes especially in the organic range we are lucky enough to spot the true mustard and cress and supply this whenever possible.