Grow your own Watercress

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @clarksonbarry
    @clarksonbarry 8 лет назад +7

    I really like the water cress from my fish pond! It grows wonderfully in full sunlight and the constant flow of water brings all the nutrients it needs......... and it seeds itself around the garden. My bees love it!

  • @jonfox1919
    @jonfox1919 6 лет назад +24

    Wild watercress is perfectly safe to eat if it comes from a clean watercourse and you wash and cook it thoroughly. It is an excellent wild edible that is very prolific once it is established.

  • @pauljohn4795
    @pauljohn4795 5 лет назад +2

    Wow my favourite vegetables. 100% organic . Hi from Sabah Malaysia

  • @goopfish42
    @goopfish42 12 лет назад +4

    Made the soup, with some minor variations (beef stock instead of vegetable). Great recipe, the pear works fine. I also left the grated ginger in entirely. Now I'm energized and going out to cut some lawn and firewood!

    • @cookingwithwillyj4795
      @cookingwithwillyj4795 3 года назад

      Please check this out. ruclips.net/video/J-_0Nv1TKqg/видео.html

  • @Rodtang-x5z
    @Rodtang-x5z 8 месяцев назад +1

    My family have been eating watercress from the wild for generations and nobody has ever got sick from eating it despite all our spring fed streams being surrounded by sheep and cattle...

  • @nathanlam9884
    @nathanlam9884 5 лет назад +9

    Chinese people been eating this for thousands of years from the wild is the best! Big rivers and white sand! Not a man made pond or a pot with rocks lol.

    • @panfilobhutia
      @panfilobhutia 3 года назад

      Grew up in the eastern Himalayas and this vegetable was very common in the streams.

  • @solfeinberg437
    @solfeinberg437 6 лет назад +3

    This video is not really about how to grow your own watercress - at least not primarily, anyway. Coupled with the thumbnail, the title and intro video is horribly misleading. I'm like: I'm going to have a pond full of watercress. So, now I need a spring? And I run the risk of liver fluke? What is a fluke? Some sort of liver inhabiting worm? That's just great. If I'm growing it in a pond filled with rainwater, will that work? Brilliant suggestion to just plant the watercress you buy! I like that. Skip the seeds. But with no soil, how long can that last? I want something that will last indefinitely. Also, really good that you list the plant fights cancer! I've been singing the praises of greens doing that for like 15 years, but now everyone is saying it - really great that the consciousness is there. If you look at nutrient density - amount of anticancer nutrients per calorie - the watercress may be the best possible food, but the oil you're using is one of the worst - it's pure calories and zero nutrients, so, maybe skip that, or just use a teaspoon. Thanks for the video and, especially, for the just plant the store bought cress - I really like that. You can do the same thing with leeks, if they come with roots - plant the end (after you eat the part you want) it will grow back and can be re-cropped or let flower and produce seeds.

    • @ShellBAtoms
      @ShellBAtoms 6 месяцев назад

      I don’t know what kind of motivated me to buy a bowl some pebbles, some watercress, and grow it!

  • @bestforjuicing
    @bestforjuicing 11 лет назад +2

    Watercress is amazing stuff.... I love it!

    • @cookingwithwillyj4795
      @cookingwithwillyj4795 3 года назад

      Please check this out. ruclips.net/video/J-_0Nv1TKqg/видео.html

  • @markedwards9247
    @markedwards9247 Год назад +1

    Running spring water is insanely high in mineral content.
    The key word being running !
    That is what water cress thrive on. Not standing water.

  • @huanyu1924
    @huanyu1924 10 лет назад +2

    you have a beautiful kitchen !

  • @ron8482
    @ron8482 8 месяцев назад

    We have an unused watercress bed in waltham abbey unfortunantly would be great to see it used again.

  • @LKN4WAR
    @LKN4WAR 11 лет назад +4

    Bought a bag at store, roots on it. Cut off greens, juiced it. Threw roots in old wheel barrow full of potting mix and compost. The plant is now the size of a large football? Is it edible since it was grown outside? With that liver thing, never heard of that.

    • @mingsong
      @mingsong 6 лет назад

      LKN4WAR that’s carried by the snails in pond. It was quite common in rural China where people consume the snails and do not cook fully. The parasites will harm liver. I never see those in the US though, and if u grow in soil no need to worry. If u really worry, just sautee them.

    • @solfeinberg437
      @solfeinberg437 6 лет назад

      Hey Ming Song - if I can presume you're Asian, it's starting to seem like the Asians have more experience than Americans with watercress, judging by the commenters names - of course, I know they have more experience with vegetables generally - some of us don't even eat veggies. We're retarded and paying the price. Although, if this video is any indication we're starting to wake up. Anyway, if I'm growing this in a pond (filled with rainwater), can snails appear? I've got frogs and mosquito larvae and algae appearing. Do snails find ponds if there's a pond nearby? Not sure how they propogate. Anyway, do I need to worry only if I'm eating snails, or if I'm eating raw watercress from a pond?

  • @kimbalasa2175
    @kimbalasa2175 5 лет назад +1

    Yummy and nutritious

  • @potter0241
    @potter0241 3 года назад +1

    my mum all ways said to only pick watercress if there was a R in the month

  • @raajtoolsyraaj3275
    @raajtoolsyraaj3275 2 года назад

    Hi am a farmer from Mauritius and i plant only watercress for 25 years.Can you tell me how to control leaves miners please..

  • @juliehinsley3151
    @juliehinsley3151 Год назад

    What is sustaining the watercress without soil ? Also, never seen rooted watercress available

  • @ashtincampbell6038
    @ashtincampbell6038 6 лет назад +7

    Moari boil up with watercress straight from the creek been doing tht way me whole life never heard of anyone getting sick from watercress ?

    • @solfeinberg437
      @solfeinberg437 6 лет назад +1

      I think the cooking makes you safe.

    • @uhclem
      @uhclem 4 года назад

      Only a crazy Englishman would eat watercress raw.

    • @cookingwithwillyj4795
      @cookingwithwillyj4795 3 года назад

      Please check this out. ruclips.net/video/J-_0Nv1TKqg/видео.html

  • @kimbalasa2175
    @kimbalasa2175 5 лет назад +2

    Handsome blender. Hahah. Lols

  • @kearahehe
    @kearahehe 11 лет назад +1

    Love that veggy!!!

  • @birddayparties
    @birddayparties 6 месяцев назад

    I am trying some in my aquarium 🤞🤞

  • @Jessiele2003
    @Jessiele2003 14 лет назад

    my family and i eat watercress just like salad...we loved the biter taste. I dont like much of watercress that are cook like that as a soup or grind like that but i think i might try your technique growing in the vase.

  • @hiddensense4459
    @hiddensense4459 Год назад

    bruh I just picked the most healthy looking clean asf looking water cress off my farm ( we dont keep sheep ), I have been doing this for years how many liver flukes do I have?

  • @monikamiliczka6104
    @monikamiliczka6104 11 лет назад +2

    yummy yummy!!!!

  • @aoeu256
    @aoeu256 7 лет назад

    If you steam or put boiling water on the watercress does it kill the liverfluke bacteria?

  • @DIY-DaddyO
    @DIY-DaddyO 4 года назад

    Yummy...

  • @dilekcolak1202
    @dilekcolak1202 5 лет назад

    Super 😢👍👍💖💖💖👌👌👌

  • @isabellainnorway
    @isabellainnorway 11 лет назад +1

    I,m trying to find out if water cress has the same nutritonal value as garden nasturium. The young leaves have almost the same peppery taste and one can use the beautiful multi colored flowers too! I,ve looked everywhere on the net but can find nothing! Dan someone help me?

    • @solfeinberg437
      @solfeinberg437 6 лет назад +1

      Well, as a practical solution - don't choose; eat both. Eat lots and eat lots of varieties - greens, non startchy veggies, berries, beans, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, seeds - all have very strong anti-cancer properties. And they work symphonically. While you're at it, limit animal foods severely and eliminate or limit processed or refined plant foods severely as well - flour, sugar, and oil and products made from them. Which one wins, watercress or nasturium leaves isn't that practically important. I'm hearing watercress is the best a lot now. I suspect there simply aren't as many studies on nasturium (what do you eat, just the petals?). But, again, you really need large amounts and wide variety to be safe. You might still need B12 and DHA.

  • @arayapongsawad4566
    @arayapongsawad4566 5 лет назад

    Good

  • @docrescue01
    @docrescue01 4 года назад

    Wow

  • @jenniferbates165
    @jenniferbates165 6 лет назад

    I normally put mine in a smoothy

  • @LionGoddess1
    @LionGoddess1 14 лет назад

    anemia sucks but having too much iron sucks even worse cause its hard to lower :P

  • @phism
    @phism 4 года назад

    Isn't letting the wild take over the bed restoring it to its former glory?

  • @MITRAHAGAMANDIRI
    @MITRAHAGAMANDIRI 3 месяца назад

    klorofill hijaun Daun selada air

  • @castleofcostamesa8291
    @castleofcostamesa8291 7 лет назад

    Oooh

  • @lureyourkidsinvan
    @lureyourkidsinvan 13 лет назад +2

    What show is this? And I'm not gay, but that dude is hot !

  • @IrishLincoln
    @IrishLincoln 6 лет назад

    Enjoy your liver flukes.

  • @savgal1211
    @savgal1211 12 лет назад +1

    @lureyourkidsinvan Uh, I have NVER heard a Hetero male EVER refer to a man as "Hot", Maybe you are Bi!? ( Not that there is anything wrong with that)!!