Cress Salad is extremely useful greens, which is used not only in cooking, but also in healing, as it contains a lot of useful substances. In Europe, the Cress Salad has long been popular for the original taste and a spicy sharp note, which it gives dishes. We have the very popularity of this type of salad just begins to gain momentum, so no longer everyone knows how to plant and grow a salad cress in themselves.
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You can sow and grow the Cress Salad all year round - in the summer in the country area, in the winter - on the windowsill of the urban apartment. For home breeding you will need: a pot or container, good land and water. Make the hole in the capacitance - to care for excess water, fall asleep the earth, make a shallow groove at a distance of 7-8 cm and drink seeds. At a depth of no more than 1 cm. Fall off the grooves with the seeds of the earth and thoroughly paint the warm, estimated water. You can collect your first crop in a salad after 2 weeks, simply cutting a salad. Check out new seeds instead of old.
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If you are gathered to grow the cress and salad on the garden, select the place - solar, with a well-drained soil. This plant loves good fertilized soil, loose and wet. Speak the garden, brave it well, span with water. You can grow a cress of a salad on one bed with other types of salads - they will not interfere with each other, since the maturation time has different. Cress Salad loves the neighborhood with other salads, radishes, carrots. Does not like when the beet is planted nearby.
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Seying the Cress Salad in the country area in the open ground you can already in April-May. Salad seeds cold-resistant. In addition, the Cress Salad generally loves coolness, so the best time for its cultivation is either spring or autumn.
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Make shallow grooves, the distance between the furrows is 10-15 centimeters. The depth of planting seeds is 1 centimeter. Put the seeds in the furrows, cover the ground and thoroughly span with warm water. For a better effect, it is possible to close the garden with agrotect or film. Watering regularly - every other day, but not too abundantly. Make a rolling of riddles.
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When shoots appear, watering can be participated. If the Cress of Salat is missing moisture, then the leaves will be loaded it, will become smaller, and the color-point arrow will appear. For food, it will be already unsuitable. The first crop of the Cress Salad can be assembled already two weeks after the first germs - just cut off the sprouts with scissors or a knife, and in their place they have new seeds.
Taking advantage of these recommendations, you can raise a great harvest of the Cress Salad on its site and provide the whole family of vitamins. In the subtle stalks of this plant, there is an amazing amount of vitamins and the useful trace elements necessary for our body. Moreover, Cress Salad is also an excellent antidepressant.