Herbs · Cool
Garden cress
Brassicaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 5 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–10b
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 3 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- partial shadeAlso okay:full sunshade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:raised-bed mixsandy
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:very free-draining
Seed & start
Direct sow
Sow directly into the bed — no pre-culture needed.
Stachi's tip
Garden cress is the fastest harvest there is: 3 weeks from seed to butter-bread topping. Sow a few rows every 2 weeks for continuous peppery cress. Kids love the speed; the perfect first bed for young gardeners.
Sowing
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
No known conflicts.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-27 Phase 7 expansion
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