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Also called “creasy greens” in the South, this easy-to-grow, peppery-tasting winter cress adds a nice spark to salads. Harvest it as a micro green, baby green, or allow its leaves to mature fully. Slow to bolt.
- 250 seeds minimum
- Germination: 2-3 days
- Maturity: 7-14 days for microgreens, 50 days for mature plant
- Direct sow 1/8-1/4” deep partial shade as soon as soil can be worked.
- Thin seedlings to 4" apart; space rows 18-24” apart
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Barbarea Verna: Upland Cress
I discovered this plant growing in the wild while on a back country hunt in Colorado. I recognized it, but did not know the name of it. Over the course of my time in the mountains, I ate a least two pounds of it, fresh and also steamed/boiled and thoroughly enjoyed it! I took some photos and later identified it by name. The particular photos of the variety offered by Annies Heirloom Seeds looked the most like the ones that I found growing in the wild, so I purchased some from them and gave several seed packets to friends as well. Tastes like something between Arugula and Water Cress. I have received excellent and timely service from Annie's, and plan to get some seeds in the ground this week for harvesting nest spring. These plans can apparently over-winter as rosettes in southerly climates, so I plan to give it a try. They are biennial, and bloom in the spring/early summer, re-seed into the fall, over-winter as small rosettes, and the cycle begins again!