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Upland Cress

Barbarea verna

A variety of cress

How to sow upland cress: sow seeds. seeding every two weeks is possible

Sun requirement for upland cress: Plant in Full Sun

A self-seeding New Zealand salad green that grows in rosettes like lettuce and tastes like watercress. It grows all winter and is highly nutritious. Sow in trays in early autumn and early spring, prick out at 2.5 cm and transplant at 6 cm high, 20 cm apart on the diagonal.

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Annual living and reproducing in a single year or less

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