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Indian cress
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Description
Indian cress flowers brighten up your garden and attract lots of butterflies and bees. The flowers, buds, young leaves, and seeds are edible too.
Specifications
Sowing time: mid April-May
Height: about 25 cm with long tendrils
Weight: 2 grams
Height: about 25 cm with long tendrils
Weight: 2 grams
In the app
Sowing: 16 April - 31 May
Level 1
seeds are sowed
Level 2
seedling visible
Level 3
one seedling
Level 4
little plant
Level 5
first harvest
Level 6
continual growth
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- The app helps you with almost everything you do in your vegetable garden: sowing, tending, and harvesting.
- If something goes wrong, the app tells you what steps to take.
- If that doesn’t work, you can ask us for advice.
- If that still doesn’t help, we’ll look for other solutions together. Until we get it right.
Indian cress is super healthy
Indian cress is an excellent natural antibiotic. All of its parts - the seeds, leaves, and flowers - help you fight infectious diseases and inflammation. It also builds up your immunity and makes you less susceptible to colds, flu, and other illnesses.
Indian cress contains a lot of vitamin C, which inhibits bacterial, viral, and fungal growth and is good for blood circulation.
Indian cress contains a lot of vitamin C, which inhibits bacterial, viral, and fungal growth and is good for blood circulation.
More about our Indian cress
Indian cress - also known as nasturtium - is one of the best companion plants for your vegetables. It lures harmful insects away from other plants. Bees and butterflies love it. The flowers, young leaves, and seeds are edible.
- Species name: Indian cress
- Family: flower
- Plants per square patch: 1
- Height: about 25 cm tall with tendrils reaching up to 3 meters long
- Sowing time: mid-April and May
- Sowing depth: 2 to 3 cm
- Germination: about 15°C in 7 to 15 days
- Time to bloom: 8 to 10 weeks
- Sunlight: can grow in sun or semi-shade
Looking for Indian cress seeds? We sell seed bags separately, or you can find Indian cress seeds in our Specials seed pack.
What do you need to grow your own Indian cress?
Here's everything you need to grow Indian cress:
- a 30x30 cm vegetable garden patch with airy, nutrient-rich soil mix
- Indian cress seeds
- a place with at least 6 to 8 hours of sunlight a day
In other words, an MM-Mini, or a square patch in one of our garden boxes, filled with MM-Mix.
Growing Indian cress in this perfect soil mix is super easy. If you use poor-quality (potting) soil, it's much harder and the results will be disappointing. So just go for the best.
Growing Indian cress in this perfect soil mix is super easy. If you use poor-quality (potting) soil, it's much harder and the results will be disappointing. So just go for the best.
How to sow and grow Indian cress
Our Indian cress is included in the free Planty Gardening app. Use it, and you'll get step-by-step guidance from seed to harvest.
Each vegetable goes through a number of stages - we call them levels. The app tells you exactly what to do at each level and checks in when your plants are ready for the next one.
So you don't need to know how to grow Indian cress in advance: the app takes you through every step.
But if you'd like to read more about those steps, here's what the process looks like:
Each vegetable goes through a number of stages - we call them levels. The app tells you exactly what to do at each level and checks in when your plants are ready for the next one.
So you don't need to know how to grow Indian cress in advance: the app takes you through every step.
But if you'd like to read more about those steps, here's what the process looks like:
Level 1: Sowing the Indian cress
Level 1: Oost-Indische kers zaaien
Since the plant produces long tendrils, the best place to sow is either along the trellis - so you can guide it upwards - or on a side patch - so it can grow over the edge. Loosen up the moist MM-Mix and sow like this:
- poke 1 hole in the patch (2 - 3 cm deep)
- put 2 to 3 seeds in each hole
- carefully cover up the holes with soil mix
After about 2 weeks, you'll see something come up. It depends a bit on the weather.
Level 2: Indian cress seedlings
Level 2: Oost-Indische kers zaailingen
As soon as you see the first seedlings, you know things are going well. They probably won't all come up at once, but give it another week.
Then it's time for the next level.
Then it's time for the next level.
Level 3: Thinning nasturtium seedlings
Level 3: Oost-Indische kers zaailingen uitdunnen
When several seedlings come up in the spot you sowed, choose the best one and remove the rest: that's called thinning out. It might sound harsh, but it's necessary. The remaining plant will then have enough room to grow.
Level 4: Caring for your Indian cress plant
Level 4: Verzorging van je Oost-Indische kers plantje
After a week or 2, your seedlings will become small plants. You hardly need to do anything: if the weather's dry, give them some water and remove the odd dead or yellow leaf. Easy 🙂
Level 5: Flowering Indian cress
Level 5: Bloeiende Oost-Indische kers
About 8 to 9 weeks after sowing, you'll see the first flowers.
The plants will be growing fast and producing long tendrils. If they get too big, just prune them back. Indian cress plants are tough.
The plants will be growing fast and producing long tendrils. If they get too big, just prune them back. Indian cress plants are tough.
What do you use Indian cress for?
The edible flowers brighten up any salad.
Like the young leaves, they have a fresh and tangy flavor. So you can also toss the leaves in a salad.
Like the young leaves, they have a fresh and tangy flavor. So you can also toss the leaves in a salad.
You can make a type of caper with fresh Indian cress seed balls, salt, and vinegar.
Have a cold? Chew on a young leaf every now and then: it's good for building resistance and it helps soothe a sore throat.
Have a cold? Chew on a young leaf every now and then: it's good for building resistance and it helps soothe a sore throat.
The last levels
De laatste levels
Indian cress can be left in your vegetable garden all year round. The plant continues to bloom until it gets really cold.
It grows fast, so just check back any shoots that get too big or look ugly.
As soon as it gets really cold and starts to freeze, the plant goes limp. It's time to empty out your patch or MM-Mini and get it ready for another round.
It grows fast, so just check back any shoots that get too big or look ugly.
As soon as it gets really cold and starts to freeze, the plant goes limp. It's time to empty out your patch or MM-Mini and get it ready for another round.
So: ready to sow your own Indian cress?
It's super easy to grow, a great companion plant for your vegetables, edible, and healthy too.
Plus: with our app and materials, it's practically impossible to fail 😉
Order your Indian cress seeds here or get growing with a complete starter kit:
Plus: with our app and materials, it's practically impossible to fail 😉
Order your Indian cress seeds here or get growing with a complete starter kit:
Enjoy!
