WinterCherry

  • Product number: 302000
  • Origin: Europe
  • Latin: Barbarea verna, also known as Barbarea praecox

Upland cress is increasingly being discovered as an ideal winter salad. Its pungent garden cress flavour (more pungent in summer than in winter), high vitamin content, and incredible frost resistance make it a top choice for mixing with, for example, winter purslane and lamb's lettuce. Let them go to seed the following year: the yellow clusters of flowers are very ornamental, and the plant may self-seed…

Names:
Latin: Barbarea verna, or Barbarea praecox
Dutch: Winterkers
Also: Barbarakruid, Landkers
English: Land Cress

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Sowing method: March - July for same-year harvest. Aug - Sept for winter and spring harvest. Each plant takes up about 25x15 cm space. Prefers partial shade and moisture.

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Sowing/planting time:

  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September

Harvesting time:

  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
  • January
  • February
  • March

Soil type:

  • All soil types

Cultivation location:

  • Outdoors

Position:

  • Partial shade
  • Flower colour: Yellow flower clusters
  • Origin: Europe
  • Average growth height: 30 to 60 cm
  • Annual or perennial: Biennial
  • Attractive to insects: Various insects
  • Winter hardy: Forst hardy
  • Ease of cultivation: Easy
  • Latin: Barbarea verna, also known as Barbarea praecox
  • Dutch: Winter Cherry
  • Also known as: Winter cress, American land cress
  • English: Land Cress
  • All year round

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