Plant in the water

steem

...and then I found this:

Quote:

...If you are picking wild watercress, you need to be able to distinguish it from Apium nodiflorum or Fool's watercress. Furthermore there is a plant very similar to Fool's watercress which is poisonous. This is Berula erecta (or the lesser water parsnip. Fortunately Berula erecta does not seem to grow in the same places as watercress thrives.)

from http://www.4qd.org/virtual/www.4qd.org/fff/species.html

hmmm...

Burnsy

Anyone know if you can get Kangkong in Perth? We have a few Vietnamese students and it would be great to grow some in the school system.

steem

to put it another way :shock:

steem

burnsy I got kankong as a cut vegetable from an asian grocer at the markets...throw it in and off it goes.

Burnsy

steem wrote:

burnsy I got kankong as a cut vegetable from an asian grocer at the markets...throw it in and off it goes.

So just a handful of leaf and stem into water or do you need a subtantial lump of stem? Got a picture of exactly what you threw in?

AlexP

kankong
most chinese supermarkets have a small section of chinese garden seeds (from taiwan), kantong is among them, its probably called chinese watercress or something like that. I'll soon throw some seeds into a pond and see if they go, its currently my number one container plant, insects don't seem to like it as much as other choy.

Burnsy

I got some out of the fridge at the asian greengrocer just over a week ago, ate most of it (yum) but threw some into the creek system grow bed and some into a vase on the kitchen bench. Both are now looking like they are growing :cheers:

Thanks for the advice.

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