I would like to grow some watercress
Don't have stream have a tiny concrete pond about a meter round but
not flowing
Is it possible and where do you get seeds or plants?
Thanks
Rich
Westerly 2219 DAVICO

Rich writes
I would like to grow some watercress
Don't have stream have a tiny concrete pond about a meter round but
not flowing
Is it possible

Easily

and where do you get seeds or plants?

The supermarket, if you're posting from the UK. I'm pretty sure that's
where I got mine from - IIRC I just threw the bunch in. Pond owners
often do this as a way of keeping algal growth down by removing some of
the nitrogen.

If you're planning to eat the watercress, Google on watercress and
"liver fluke" and take appropriate precautions.
--
Kay

On 24 Mar, 20:21, Rich wrote:
I would like to grow some watercress
Don't have stream have a tiny concrete pond about a meter round but
not flowing
Is it possible and where do you get seeds or plants?
Thanks
Rich
Westerly 2219 DAVICO

Buy a bunch/bag of watercress and you can plant most of the stems.
If you fill Large flower pots with peat based compost, top with gravel
and plant the stems in into them, then stand the pots in the edge of
the pond or in a container with about an inch or so of water it
should grow for you.

David Hill
Abacus Nurseries

Hi there,
You can get watercress seed that grows on dry land, no stream or pond reqd.

David.

"Rich" wrote in message
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I would like to grow some watercress
Don't have stream have a tiny concrete pond about a meter round but
not flowing
Is it possible and where do you get seeds or plants?
Thanks
Rich
Westerly 2219 DAVICO

"medico" wrote in message
...
Hi there,
You can get watercress seed that grows on dry land, no stream or pond
reqd.
[...]

That sounds more like land cress, aka "American" land cress. Dead easy,
and even likes a little shade: I recommend it. But I believe even
watercress will grow on land, if not allowed to dry out - yes, just
looked it up: you need a good water-retentive soil high in humus.

--
Mike.



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"Rich" wrote in message
I would like to grow some watercress
Don't have stream have a tiny concrete pond about a meter round but
not flowing

A friend had one which just sulked in her pool. She eventually put it in
one of the higher sections where the water ran from a higher pool into the
bottom one and it took off like Topsy. She had bearly been able to harvest
any when it sat in still water, but once the pump ran water through it on a
regular basis, she was cutting some to include in salads every day. She's
given me some and mine is sulking too and it's on my agenda to put it in a
spot where and old fish tank pump can run water through it.

In article , K
writes

Pond owners often do this as a way of keeping algal growth down by
removing some of the nitrogen.

Can you do this in a pond with fish as well as wildlife Kay?

--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

On Mar 24, 11:11 pm, K wrote:
Rich writes

I would like to grow some watercress
Don't have stream have a tiny concrete pond about a meter round but
not flowing
Is it possible

Easily

and where do you get seeds or plants?

The supermarket, if you're posting from the UK. I'm pretty sure that's
where I got mine from - IIRC I just threw the bunch in. Pond owners
often do this as a way of keeping algal growth down by removing some of
the nitrogen.

If you're planning to eat the watercress, Google on watercress and
"liver fluke" and take appropriate precautions.
--
Kay

I was about to post that Kay and you did it for me! We are careful
where we buy our watercress from, locally, because Edward (mine that
is, not your Edward) remembered from his student days, someone who got
liver fluke through eating w.cress from a stream in Oxfordshire.

Judith

medico writes
Hi there,
You can get watercress seed that grows on dry land, no stream or pond reqd.


Isn't that American landcress? Different plant, tastes the same.
David.

"Rich" wrote in message
.. .
I would like to grow some watercress
Don't have stream have a tiny concrete pond about a meter round but
not flowing
Is it possible and where do you get seeds or plants?
Thanks
Rich
Westerly 2219 DAVICO



--
Kay

Janet Tweedy writes
In article , K
writes

Pond owners often do this as a way of keeping algal growth down by
removing some of the nitrogen.

Can you do this in a pond with fish as well as wildlife Kay?

I think it depends on how you are growing the fish. I have green tench
in my pond, and of course there's no problem with growing watercress
(which is a UK native) in any pond with fish. But if you are keeping
your fish in a weed-free pond, then you probably won't want the
watercress in there.

--
Kay

In message . com,
" writes

I was about to post that Kay and you did it for me! We are careful
where we buy our watercress from, locally, because Edward (mine that
is, not your Edward) remembered from his student days, someone who got
liver fluke through eating w.cress from a stream in Oxfordshire.


Liver fluke require both sheep and snails (and you to eat a tiny snail
with your watercress) so if you start with safe commercial watercress
and there are no sheep near your pond you should be OK.

Wild watercress isn't safe to eat raw but makes very good watercress
soup.

--
Sue ] PhD

In message , MadCow
writes
In message . com,
" writes

I was about to post that Kay and you did it for me! We are careful
where we buy our watercress from, locally, because Edward (mine that
is, not your Edward) remembered from his student days, someone who got
liver fluke through eating w.cress from a stream in Oxfordshire.


Liver fluke require both sheep and snails (and you to eat a tiny snail
with your watercress) so if you start with safe commercial watercress
and there are no sheep near your pond you should be OK.

What about birds bathing in and defecating into the water, though (as
they do in our tiny pond)? Could that become a problem, even if it isn't
now? Or is washing enough to take care of that?



--
Klara, Gatwick basin

"Klara" wrote in message
In message MadCow writes
In message "
writes

I was about to post that Kay and you did it for me! We are careful
where we buy our watercress from, locally, because Edward (mine that
is, not your Edward) remembered from his student days, someone who got
liver fluke through eating w.cress from a stream in Oxfordshire.


Liver fluke require both sheep and snails (and you to eat a tiny snail
with your watercress) so if you start with safe commercial watercress and
there are no sheep near your pond you should be OK.

What about birds bathing in and defecating into the water, though (as they
do in our tiny pond)? Could that become a problem, even if it isn't now?
Or is washing enough to take care of that?

Bird poo isn't a problem as far as I've ever heard. It's mostly phosphate.
In common with most rural Australians, I use only rainwater collected from
the roof for drinking and showering purposes and we have lots of birds in
our garden. I doubt whether they are so considerate that they don't poo on
my roof where the rain falls.

In message
, FarmI
writes
"Klara" wrote in message
In message MadCow writes
In message "
writes

I was about to post that Kay and you did it for me! We are careful
where we buy our watercress from, locally, because Edward (mine that
is, not your Edward) remembered from his student days, someone who got
liver fluke through eating w.cress from a stream in Oxfordshire.


Liver fluke require both sheep and snails (and you to eat a tiny snail
with your watercress) so if you start with safe commercial watercress and
there are no sheep near your pond you should be OK.

What about birds bathing in and defecating into the water, though (as they
do in our tiny pond)? Could that become a problem, even if it isn't now?
Or is washing enough to take care of that?

Bird poo isn't a problem as far as I've ever heard. It's mostly phosphate.
In common with most rural Australians, I use only rainwater collected from
the roof for drinking and showering purposes and we have lots of birds in
our garden. I doubt whether they are so considerate that they don't poo on
my roof where the rain falls.


I wasn't thinking so much in general terms - more if bird flu really
reaches he the last incident was not very far from where my daughters
live....

But how is the rain situation your way these days?


--
Klara, Gatwick basin