Any have thoughts on watercress in zone 7a-6b ish? Ya think it'll survive,
or is it too early?


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"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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Any have thoughts on watercress in zone 7a-6b ish? Ya think it'll survive,
or is it too early?
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Unless it's frost hardly it wont survive. I live in zone 6. Our last frost
date is 4/15, but we've had frost as late as 4/20.
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I don't know what kind of watercress I get. SUPER cress I suppose.
This stuff grew in the waterfall and out into the water. The water was
turned off last fall so the stems are all brown but the stuff in the
water kept on going. It got frozen in the ice all winter, snowed on and
generally abused.
It is growing gang busters right now. We're zone 7a.
That said, it is acclimatized.
I don't know if stuff from the store right now would do as well but
since it is fairly cheap I'd give it a whril.

kathy

I leave my pump running. Watercress is living in it and is green right
now. But, if you are adding new watercress (not established), I would
wait a month. I have lots on watercress at
http://www.fishpondinfo.com/plant3.htm

Reel McKoi wrote:

"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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Any have thoughts on watercress in zone 7a-6b ish? Ya think it'll
survive, or is it too early?
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Unless it's frost hardly it wont survive. I live in zone 6. Our last
frost date is 4/15, but we've had frost as late as 4/20.

Watercress is very frost hardy. It should be fine _soon_, but I think the
first week of March is maybe still a bit optimistic :-)
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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:48:39 -0500, "Benign Vanilla"
wrote:

Any have thoughts on watercress in zone 7a-6b ish? Ya think it'll survive,
or is it too early?

I'm in 7b I think, a bit south of Atlanta, my watercress is coming
back on it's own. We had a few days of low 20's F this year.

Mike
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