Mr Fothergills Mustard & Cress Seed (1)

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If you wash out empty eggshells, you can draw faces on the front and grow ‘egglings’ with cress hair!

Public Notice: We have become aware that some SEO companies are redirecting domains not owned by us to this site. 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 sow your seeds in the morning then they may have started to germinate by bedtime – small white roots will be visible.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). 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. 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). In some regions, garden cress is known as mustard and cress, garden pepper cress, pepperwort, pepper grass, or poor man's pepper. I'm a peat-free, organic gardener, but I'm also fascinated by hydroponics and the more high-tech ways of feeding people.

Place the growing medium in a small container or saucer and moisten well, then spread the seed thickly over the surface.Raw cress is 89% water, 6% carbohydrates (including 1% dietary fiber), 3% protein and less than 1% fat (table). Consumers commonly acquire cress as seeds or (in Europe) from markets as boxes of young live shoots. Mustard can be grown in trays of compost or on the surface of pads of cotton wool, flannel, kitchen towel etc.