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Author:  earthbound [ Nov 17th, '06, 17:23 ]
Post subject:  Yugoslavian watercress
Someone else said it was Bulgarian watercress but i've seen it elsewhere called Yugoslavian, so I'm stickin with that name..

Great plant, absolutely loves water and will grow in straight water without a problem.. Here I bought a sheet of foam, cut 20mm holes in it, then got some cuttings with bits of root on them and stuck them in the holes. That was about 3 weeks before these photos, they are rampant, even though it looks like the roots might be being trimmed by the silver perch..

The silvers love it too, any leaf that bends over into the water gets munched, any stem that tries to grow past the edge of the foam also gets munched. The plant has a fairly mild flavour, sort of a cross between cellery and flat leaf parsley, great addition to salads, or eaten on it's own..

Keep your eye out for it in pond shops or water plant nurseries, it's well worth trying out...

For those coming around on Sunday, you can go home with some... :)

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File comment: Notice a couple of bitten off stems along the bottom edge of the foam... Hungry fish....
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File comment: Not bad for three weeks of growth, I expect the whole sheet of foam to be covered within another couple of weeks.
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Author:  Asitis [ Nov 17th, '06, 17:28 ]
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3 weeks! :shock: This seems like an excellent plant for this situation. It is an annual?
Author:  EllKayBee [ Nov 17th, '06, 18:27 ]
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Here I bought a sheet of foam, cut 20mm holes in it.....


EB - could you give some instructions on how to cut 20mm holes, Janet is interested in putting a sump tank under her floor and not sure how to do the hole thingies (do you use a 50mm hole saw then fill with silastic?)

P.S. that stuff looks real good too :D
Author:  bundaberg kid [ Nov 17th, '06, 18:33 ]
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Ell....why not save up n buy a 20mm holesaw instead??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? lol sorry, am just glad the week is over hey lol
Author:  EllKayBee [ Nov 17th, '06, 18:43 ]
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I've got one - its Janet that needs the help :happy6:
Author:  bundaberg kid [ Nov 17th, '06, 18:46 ]
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....I got a spare 1
Author:  Jez [ Nov 17th, '06, 19:08 ]
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Looks identical to my lebanese watercress I've got growing Joel...just to add a bit more confusion. ;-)

This is the blurb from where I bought mine:

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WATERCRESS - Lebanese (Aethionema cordiolum) OGA
Hardy perennial ground cover to 20cm, creeping variety, attractive dissected foliage. Celery-flavoured, good in salads, meat and stir-fry. Excellent in sun, shade and wet areas.



I planted out the area directly under the washing line with hardy edible groundcovers...put various mints in there among other things and this variety of watercress is almost outcompeting the mint. In dirt it has a tendency to burrow under the soil and pop out again a fair distance from the main part of the plant - taking root as it goes - rather than just creep above ground.

Probably a really good idea to keep it confined the way you have...it could easily become a problem in a multiple plant grow bed I suspect!
Author:  EllKayBee [ Nov 17th, '06, 19:21 ]
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Right EB, you've convinced me to try the watercress, "B" should stock that :sunny:
Author:  janethesselberth [ Nov 17th, '06, 21:17 ]
Post subject:  Re: Yugoslavian watercress
oooo.....must have holesaw... :drunken:

That watercress looks wonderful. I'm not familiar with it, but maybe I can get seed if I look around a bit.

On a happy note, my 3 wasabi plants arrived last night. They look very strong and healthy, but a bit wilty. They are soaking right now, and I will get them planted this weekend.

--Janet
Author:  Hethbo [ Nov 18th, '06, 07:13 ]
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Hey, love the way that looks, and you can eat it! Brilliant!
Wondering how it would go inside with the goldies, although probably in a pot rather than rafts
Author:  Donarto [ Nov 18th, '06, 09:42 ]
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Great plant there Joel. Are you planning on using it as a source of food for the fish as well, a little something they can chew on as it grows into the water?
Author:  heka [ Jun 27th, '07, 22:00 ]
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Asitis wrote:
3 weeks! :shock: This seems like an excellent plant for this situation. It is an annual?

I have this plant growing in my garden. Grown from seed planted some years ago. A bought the seeds under the name "Salad Burnett".
My experience: Hardy Perenial, grows with very little or no water, can die completely and regenerate when it gets rain/water.
Have to check - it might still have some seeds on it.
An amazing plant.
Author:  gemmell [ Jun 28th, '07, 07:41 ]
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Isn't watercress an oxygenating plant? Double the goodness.
Author:  heka [ Jul 1st, '07, 18:31 ]
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gemmell wrote:
Isn't watercress an oxygenating plant? Double the goodness.

I'm not sure if it is an oxygenating plant or not. I forgot to mention it stands up to frost - 8C, which we had last year.I have tranplanted some plants into the pond now on polystyrene 'rafts'. I have also got some, what I call "genuine" watercress, from a creek and put it into the pond.
Author:  Food&Fish [ Jul 1st, '07, 19:21 ]
Post subject:  Re: Yugoslavian watercress
Any body in melbourne want some its growing wild here pickup only
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