Even if you don't have a garden, you don't have to do without fresh cress from your own garden. You can plant a cress bed anywhere that is warm and humid enough.

Create a bed of cress in the garden

Cress grows on any soil. The soil should be moist but not waterlogged. Find a sunny spot that you can get rid of weeds and loosen up a bit.

Sow cress in rows or scatter them widely among other vegetables.

Cress is also ideal as a catch crop because it grows so quickly and prevents weeds from germinating.

Grow cress on the windowsill

If you have neither a balcony nor a garden, create a cress bed on the window sill. You only need a little space for this and the maintenance is also not complex.

You need this for a bed of cress

  • Waterproof pad
  • Germ-free garden soil or
  • cotton or
  • paper towels
  • spray bottle
  • cress seeds

Any container that is waterproof is suitable as a base. You can create a cress bed on a plate, in a jar or even on an upside down lid.

You can also use an egg carton as a cress bed. In this case, all you have to do is place the bed on a saucer so that the water does not drip onto the windowsill.

How to lay out the cress bed

Fill the base with plain garden soil. To be on the safe side, you should scald the soil with boiling water beforehand to destroy harmful germs. This will prevent mold from appearing later.

Instead of soil, you can use cotton wool, folded kitchen paper, and even Tempo handkerchiefs. It is important that the material absorbs water well and provides the cress roots with sufficient support.

Saturate the base with water and do not scatter the seed too densely. Cress germinates in the light, so the seed is not covered with soil. Occasionally spray the seeds with water from the spray bottle.

tips and tricks

Simply sow the cress in a pretty clay pot, which you can decorate with small figures such as chicks or bunnies. After a short time you have a great souvenir for friends and relatives, not only for Easter.

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Vegetable garden