{"id":18391,"date":"2018-07-07T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T07:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18391"},"modified":"2018-07-07T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T07:43:41","slug":"brown-cress-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18391","title":{"rendered":"Brown Cress is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"de701\" data-offset-key=\"b121-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"b121-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"b121-0-0\">BROWN CRESS IS BACK!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"de701\" data-offset-key=\"6j9od-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6j9od-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6j9od-0-0\">I received a tip via permies.com that hybrid brown watercress is again available in Europe!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"de701\" data-offset-key=\"3mt3a-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3mt3a-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3mt3a-0-0\">In my book I wrote (in the piece about watercress): <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"de701\" data-offset-key=\"4hm5l-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4hm5l-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4hm5l-0-0\">&#8220;There aren\u2019t many cultivars and the most common variety is \u2018Dark Green American\u2019. In the past, a naturally occurring hybrid between the two closely related species Nasturtium officinale and N. microphyllum (One-rowed watercress), known as brown cress (as it inherited the brownish winter leaves of N. microphyllum), was cultivated. However, this sterile clone had to be vegetatively propagated and the build-up of viruses led to its demise\u2026\u2026.It would be nice if the old hybrid brown cress had been available to the home gardener, but I\u2019ve never seen it offered.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"de701\" data-offset-key=\"11d4e-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"11d4e-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"11d4e-0-0\">You can order it from:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"de701\" data-offset-key=\"5v2f-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5v2f-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5v2f-0-0\">https:\/\/www.kraeuter-und-duftpflanzen.de\/Nach-Verwendung\/Essbare-Pflanzen\/Salatkraeuter\/Braune-Brunnenkresse-Pflanz<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"de701\" data-offset-key=\"1ds6f-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1ds6f-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1ds6f-0-0\">Please let us know how you get on!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWN CRESS IS BACK! I received a tip via permies.com that hybrid brown watercress is again available in Europe! In my book I wrote (in the piece about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2448],"tags":[3086,3088,3087,1985],"class_list":["post-18391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-plants","tag-brown-cress","tag-nasturtium-microphyllum","tag-nasturtium-officinale","tag-watercress"],"views":2966,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18392,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18391\/revisions\/18392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}