Hydroponic Watercress Harvest - What is Doug doing?
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- Опубликовано: 23 фев 2022
- Harvesting watercress is a little different than the other produce we grow. Requires different handling and process to harvest. Watercress or yellowcress is a species of aquatic flowering plant in the cabbage family Brassicaceae. Watercress is a rapidly growing, perennial plant native to Europe and Asia. It is one of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by humans. Considered a super food.... you should be growing and eating this plant!
When I am in the greenhouse working, Doug is making great leather products for family and friends. He buys his leather by the side-veg tan and stains it himself. Everything is hand stitched. If you would like to see more leave us a comment and we can show all his creations and process to make fine leather products. You can also see all his leather items on our Facebook page.
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MOFO ANANA=MOFO SAKAY=WTERCRESS FRITTERS
(Graciously given to us by a farm market customer - Enjoy)
Makes about 12 Fritters
Ingredients:
1 1/2 C Flour
3 to 4 C watercress - cut up
1 tomato diced
1 onion diced
2 green onions - sliced (use all parts of the green onions)
2 eggs - beaten
1 C water
1 tsp Curry powder
3/4 tsp salt
Oil for frying (use about 3 Tbsp per batch in a frying pan OR you can use a deep fryer.
Optional: finely chopped chili, 1 tsp backing powder
Add all ingredients in a bowl to make a thick smooth batter
Heat oil on medium high. Drop a spoonful of batter at a time in hot oil. Fry the fritters until golden brown then turn over and fry other side until it's golden brown as well.
Serve hot with hot condiments.
Watercress Soup
Ingredients
3 tablespoons butter
2 cups white or yellow onion, chopped
Salt
1 cup white wine, chicken stock, or vegetable stock (wine or veg stock for vegetarian version)
1-pound potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
6 cups water
6 cups fresh watercress, about 1/2 pound, chopped, stems included
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
About 6 tablespoons sour cream, stirred in, or for garnish
Cook the onions in the melted butter:
In a large pot, heat the butter until froth. Then, add the onions, cooking over medium heat until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Salt the onions as they cook.
cook onions for base of watercress soup
Add the wine and potatoes and simmer:
Add the wine (or stock), potatoes and water and bring to a boil. Turn the heat down to low. Cover the pot and simmer until the potatoes are soft, about 30 minutes.
potatoes cooking in stock in pot for watercress soup
Add the watercress:
Add the watercress to the pot. Stir well and cook for 2 more minutes.
add chopped watercress to soup in pot
Purée the soup:
Turn off the heat and purée the soup with an immersion blender. If you don't have an immersion blender, pour the soup in batches into a regular blender and transfer the blended soup to a clean pot.
Be very careful when blending hot liquids to only fill the bowl a third of the way, and to hold down the blender's lid while you purée.
puree watercress soup
Season and garnish before serving:
Add salt to taste, then, add the black pepper.
You can either stir the sour cream into the whole batch of soup or serve a tablespoon in the center of each person's bowl.
When I finished this video I found myself jealous of your success. Then I realized it came from your hard work and dedication so good for you.
Always looking forward to seeing more.
Thanks Scott... thanks for supporting the channel
Thanks for your very interesting videos. I always enjoy watching them. You all take care. Xxx
Looks awesome & plentiful...wow!
Thank you!
Looks simply amazing!!!
Thank you! we are trying to make some good videos.
What a great harvest and how clever are you Doug. Cheers from down under.
Thank you kindly
Amazing..
Thank you! Cheers!
Very impressive the work you have done and the investment. Thank you for sharing your example
Glad you liked it!
Nicely dunn 👍
Thanks 👍
I love it, I grow it too hydro on a small scale, Kratky method…. It’s good in salads too, I do find it close to arugula, cheers.
Nice my friend 🌷⚘
Thank you very much!
Wow , everything growing looks happy , big and beautiful . CSA customers have to love delivery days !!! :) Congratulations Doug on your new line of leather goods. Very fine craftsmanship :) Will the cattle you raise every end up on the work table for a leather project ? Thank you both for the many great educational videos and growing healthy food tips. I hope more young farmers consider moving toward hydroponic growing for all the business benefits .
Sounds like a cool idea but I hear the work needed to turn a raw hide into a workable piece of leather is a major undertaking.... think I'll just keep buying my leather and supplies from Weaver Leather. They are close and since I buy so much stuff, they have me as a wholesaler...so I get some nice discounts.
We host Ohio State ATI agricultural classes a few times a year for field trips. More and more people are realizing that hydroponics is the way of the future in terms of suppling quality produce year-round without pesticides, herbicides etc... as required from traditional farming.
I am very happy with the progress of the leeks, they look very happy. But the water cress that I love as a salad is the winner in this video. 😀
So nice of you! Thanks
Where do you buy your watercress seeds from ?
👍 looking good , keeping scout tradition alive eh!!? Got any other merit badges other than leather crafting😝 nice work 🤗 … ✌️🤙
I have a couple more.... ill share in upcoming videos...LOL...thanks ...always love your comments!!!
Chinese slow cook Chicken soup with watercress and shitaki mushroom soup is the best!
Sounds great!
Excellenty work!!! I built a hydroponic A-frame before the pandemic. It has been sitting there for a few years, but you inspired me to start up again. Which hydroponic nutrients do you use for watercress?
so, we have a recipe based on our source water. Get your water analyzed and there are some formula worksheets online that can help you build your nutrient recipe.
I make a salad. Just diced water cress, onion, salt and lime to taste. Simple and good
Sounds great!
I wish my hydroponic plants look that good. Do you think the aeroponics in the trays is better than growing media? I have a small greenhouse. I am going to grow tomatoes and peppers like y’all do in bato buckets
Thanks
Kenneth
Aeroponics is very cool...it was just easy for us to go the nft route because we could scale up to grow as a business. Bato buckets are the way to go for tomatoes and peppers. You will have great results.
In terms of the other comments, there's Nowt so odd as Folk
Nice work Katie.😊👍
How do you supply magnesium cheers!
It's in one of the nutrient ingredients in the overall recipe. Epson salts
I've been watching you for a long time and have gained useful information for my small home hydroponic systems. I grow most of my greens in my basement (kratky method) using artificial LED grow lights. I grow all of my peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers outside in Dutch buckets. I do not have a greenhouse , yet. I'm trying to find some land to put one or two up. I am curious as to the nutrient brand you use and your mix ratios in your greenhouse. I notice everything you grow is using the same nutrient concentrations. Is that true? I use MasterBlend for all my growing. I have tried others but without much luck. I would like to know what you use to hopefully eliminate some of my tip burn on my greens. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Is Devon ever coming back????
Going to do a new video on nutrients so hopefully we can cover that subject for you. Devon says she is going to do videos again. Just doing her mom thing with the boys now that they are going to school etc... We will get her back on camera.
❤Love your set up, I’m just wondering how many watercress seeds do you sow in each bunch
Hi Jerry at least 15. I don't thin and just let the bunch grow till I harvest as one bunch for the customer
Beautiful thank you kindly, I really appreciate your help and info you share and look forward to seeing more videos you post ❤❤❤
Please what distance between plants do you recommend in a hydroponic system for watercress? Thanks
8 inches
I love watercress. Where do you get the seeds from? Thank you for the video's.
Johnny's Seeds. I buy most of my seeds from them.
Thank you!
Hello i wanted to know whether if you cut the watercress instead of harvesting it with its root will it grow once again?
It does don't cut really short, leave a few leaves and it will come back.
Wasabi?? Ideas? Has it ever crossed your mind to put low light cool loving plants under the NFT?
Great idea. Our friends in TN are growing Micro Nasturtium for a sushi restaurant in NFT.
@@HomegrownPassion that's awesome!!!
Roughly how many seeds per cube do you sow?
Thanks
5-10 and I don't thin. I just let the entire bunch grow and then harvest so the customer gets a big bunch of watercress.
Hello, what width and height are your NFT channels?
They are from CropKing I think 4" wide and 2.5" inch high.
Its so green and lovely but unfortunately I'm a super taster. Certain plants taste wrong to me. Especially cilantro but I was shocked at all the rest on the list.
Watercress, arugula, fresh basils(I do grow and dry them for cooking and I can cook with them fresh cooking changes the flavor) Swiss chard isn't a favorite but it isn't as bad as watercress flavor wise. Some mustard cultivars taste wrong but some are nice. Its hit and miss.
And as weird as this sounds dehydrated tomato skins and seeds (a by product of canning- people dehydrate the skins and seeds to powder them for flavoring) everyone raves about the tomato flavor but its just bitter to me.
I do buy watercress for my big goldfish. They absolutely love eating it. I buy bunches and float it in the tanks. Ive not thought about growing some in my hydroponics. It might save me a bit of cash lol.
Those purses are beautiful 😍 great job and very relaxing.
really easy to grow and might be better for the fish...nice and fresh!
Hi.
Can you give me good suggestion for a hydroponic course .certified
Check out CropKings grower school...Also attend as many high tunnel and greenhouse conferences that you can and make sure to talk to venders...that's where the knowledge is!! We also took classes at Ohio State they have a terrific ag school.
@@HomegrownPassion Thank you for your information👍🏿👍🏿🥬
I noticed viewership is down since your daughter quit being in the videos. I hope everything is fine in Ohio. 👍
Remember she has small children
Shes coming back she just needed to take time for her family
Everything is good. Devon just wants to spend more time with the boys and her family. It was hard for her to video and edit in terms of time. Coming over to our farm this winter has also be more challenging with the weather and the boys getting snow days and school cancels. We all decided to take the channel in a new direction with more daily stuff going on and education content. Devon says she will jump back in hopefully we can grow the channel on new format.