Cultivating Watercress on a Very Small Scale
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- Jenny and I both love watercress, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to grow it at home and pick it really fresh? That's what I intend to try.
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Firstly, that sandwich looks banging 🥪
I grow watercress in my fish pond, I just bought a bag from Morrisons and stuck the cut end into a pot of dirt .. and also just chucked some to float in the water.. it roots very quickly, grows and flowers .. the goldfish like eating it too.. the parasite you mention being transferred by snails concerns me as I do have snails in my pond 🫤 ah well I’ve got the parasite by now if it’s so as i was eating it all last summer, it does die back somewhat in winter but is coming back now
The parasite needs two hosts to complete its lifecycle - a herbivore, which eats the wet vegetation then poops close enough to the water that the eggs in its feces can get washed into the watercourse, then one of a fairly small number of particular species of aquatic snail that is attacked by the larvae and then excretes the cysts that find their way onto vegetation at the waterside, ready to be eaten by the herbivores.
As long as you don't have any runoff entering your pond from wet grazing pastures, and as long as your pond isn't right next to a natural stream, there shouldn't be any way for the parasite to get in there.
BTW if you had the parasite, you'd know about it - the nasty little thing burrows from the intestine to the liver, damaging things on the way and making the host pretty unwell.
Liver feel alright? No jaundice?
@@AtomicShrimp this is why I don't trust myself to make anything except boxed Mac N cheese. I would 100% give myself a parasite if I tried to use anything home grown.
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6:48 '...and two days later it had tiny roots.' And that my friend is why you do not want watercress anywhere near your fishpond. I think I have finally eradicated it.
Infinite water cress!
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Indeed ❤
LIES! 😂
I don't know why, but I took great pleasure in the pallet montage
Me too! It looked like he managed to do it all just by being able to tell what goes where + how to put it together, not having to write down /draw out any plans! I am impressed and aim to have those skills myself one day 😊
Please never stop cutting your sandwiches like that. Always makes me happy
The Shrimp Cut 👌
The correct way to cut sandwiches :)
I've adopted that cutting method
It actually wound me up he didn't cut it in a triangle 😂
i go vertical down the centre, 2 perfect equal halves, no preferred half..
Your channel is one of those I like to call "hidden gems", not really mainstream, not really follow trend, just uploading whatever they want. I find it very cozy :>
Bro atomic is such a breath of fresh air no over exaggerating,shouting, screaming or stupid thumbnails with his mouth unnaturally wide open or clickbait with a title what doesn't tell you what the video is about
*Mr. Beast reads this comment and immediately makes an apology video about his thumbnails*
i mean. it is kinda your choice what and who you follow xD i dont even get suggestions anymore of that type of youtuber.
I haven't experienced that in years. I mean, I DO follow the occasional, more bombastic content creator (LinisTechTips, Alec Steele), but most people, by far, are nowhere as obnoxious (Skallagrim, Isaac Arthur, Glenn and Friends, Tasting History).
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@@AbigatorM I don't much anymore but I'm just saying in general :)
@@NothingXemnas I'm just talking generally what you see on the front page or with millions of views :)
The timing on this vid was perfect, as i have just finished what seemed to be an infinite amount of assignments. You have no idea how important this channel has become to me over the years, essentially becoming my only form of entertainment alongside a few other content creators. I just wanted to say thank you for being yourself, thank you for sharing everything you find interesting and more importantly, thank you for helping me become more open minded when it comes to new ideas and stuff that are usually outside of my comfort zone.
That's such a wholesome comment! I can't help but smile and feel hopeful. Thank you for sharing. Wish you the best, wherever you are!
Well and Im here with a huge binder in front of me with stuff i should learn for my bachloers finals next monday we are all diffrent i guess
@@kathorsees thank you! Things are looking good for me, hopefully you are doing just fine yourself!
@@Jan-td9yl haha don't worry man, i had these bad boys stacked for quite a while but i finished them around 2 hours before the deadline so you still have time. Good luck on your finals! Wishing you the best.
As a biologist I took a parasitology course in uni. It was right before lunch time too. Anyway, most of the class seemed to prefer well done foods only once we got into it. Haha. I'm back to medium rare steaks now, but it took a few years. There are plenty of really weird and wild life cycles of nasty little critters. hahaha
I took a food science course. It didn't affect me mostly since we learned equally about the parasites/bacteria/fungi and the ways they are prevented from making us sick. The simple fact of life you have to accept is that you routinely consume all of those things, they just don't always make you sick! I think it did give most of us a fixation on cleaning our kitchens properly, though. Once you realize how poorly you clean your house, you never see the process of cleaning the same way.
I remember taking chemistry at degree level and we had a weird curriculum apart from the usual analytical chem stuff. It had various modules outside of 'pure' chemistry, such as agricultural and soil chemistry, nuclear chemistry, etc.
Anyway in the ag and soil science module the liver fluke's life cycle was one thing we studied. I still remember a bunch of us in the 90s after watching Dark Skies (the tv show with parasites infesting alien 'grey' types) and asking our lecturer how practical such an organism would be lol.
The making of a step plant stand is great.
Jenny asking about that pallet is wholesome
Loved the Jenny laugh
That was such a wholesome interaction in general, loved her laugh. I hope I have what they have when I'm their age.
I love how you cut your sandwiches! I bet there are people out there absolutely furious because you won't cut proper halves - never change!
I was annoyed because it wasn't a triangle cut😂
That pallet table looks well smart! You're a man of many talents Mike
I've grown watercress from supermarket cuttings. It doesn't need running water to grow in, just damp soil. Not sure I'd want to grow in water that is flowing into and out of a galvanised bucket though - zinc and cadmium can leach out of hot dipped galvanised containers.
Hydroponics works, and I would prefer a plastic container
I wasn't aware of that. The risk should be very small since the water is not acidic, but I think I'll swap that out for plastic.
@@AtomicShrimp Polypropylene buckets for edible uses can be had for a reasonable price and they last a long time. Knife and fork symbol on the bottom. I had the lid go on one after constant use, after 15 years. The bucket is fine. Hydroponic stores often have them.
@@pattheplanter used ones can be gotten for nearly free in my part of the world. food shops will have ones that had some kind of bulk food in them.
@@AtomicShrimp even if the flowing water is not necessary, I think it’s a very cool and fun experiment for this.
This was such terrific stuff to see. I can 't wait to see how much watercress you get out of this setup. The little "riverbed" setup seems ingenius, and rooting from bags of watercress is smart.
I really find it comforting when you end with "and I hope to see you again soon." It's just super sweet.
I know it wasn't exactly your main objective to make your little watercress farm look pretty, but it really looks very nice and pretty, I imagine when it's fully grown with the watercress it will be like a lovely little fairy garden. 😊
Hi- i watch your videos all the way from Singapore. Thank you for your creative projects- i've learnt how to root vegetable cuttings from your channel and have successfully grown a rosemary from a supermarket cutting!
I love water cress, there can't be many commercially grown crops that are still the same as the wild version. It just proves its perfect as it is.
That's a really interesting point. I can't think of many. Lamb's Lettuce might be one.
chives?
@@jointgib yeah, I suppose a lot of herbs are pretty close still to their wild state.
Raw chillies on a cheese sandwich! Crikey. I'll give it a go but I fear it'll blow my mouth off.
The idea of chilli with cheese sounds amazing, I will definitely try 😂
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If that sounds amazing, then you need to try pepper jack.
Those chunky red ones you get at the supermarket arent very hot at all. Theyre basically spicy bell peppers.
These are Cayenne peppers from the market. They are relatively mild, as chillies go.
@@brandon9172 Will do, thanks 😃
I remember going with my grandfather to buy chicken, the vendor always sold watercress too, as it was traditionally eaten with our Sunday lunch of chicken, beans and rice/pie...very tasty. Hmmm great memories
I am in Hawaii we have an Asian dish called beef watercress it is delicious ! recommend it !
I always enjoy the chill vibes here, I really enjoy you walking us through your plans and experiments, doing breakdowns, explaining why you did it this way and not that.
10/10 Content. Thank you as always.
Colin Firth has his safety tie. But Shrimpy has his floral safety shirt for all his heavy engineering projects! Thanks for another video - always interesting : )
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Babatundeeeeeee!
One of the better pallet transformations of our time
4:56 so cute Jenny 🥰
I did enjoy the sounds of the drill, it made me chortle!
I've grown it successfully from seed in large trays of compost, no water. I was surprised it worked so well.
I can't wait to see how this progresses!
Fun fact about watercress: it was the first food used as the concept of fast food when railways were being introduced.. hence the watercress line in New Arlsford
I could be wrong but I suspect you'll soon experience the watercress flowering as mid / late autumn to spring will probably be the best time for watercress but I have no doubt that this will work, and you could well get a crop from this as the plant beefs itself up to prepare for flowering after regrowing a root system.
Anyone else start humming the theme from the A-Team during the pallet transformation montage?
I Love your pallet work, 👌 I use alot of leftovers from my mates in the building trade to create nice things, they always have spare wood from projects. Pallets, Decking board and 2x4 is a godsend for me to be creative.
This is incredibly clever! Love it! I often have trouble finding watercress here in the US for various tea sandwiches I want to make. It would be wonderful to be able to grow some! Excited to see your first sandwich with homegrown watercress! 🎉
Of all the pallet transformation montages I've seen, this is the first 😏
Spring time! Weather suddenly switched on like a light here in Polska... Time for some fun!
Surely, Bathtub Watercress must be a time-honored welsh(?) tradition.
I'd love to see a video about the decommissioning end of your project pipeline, Mike. Over the years there have been so many things that you've documented the creation of like in this video -- the infinite basil jumps to mind, etc. -- each of which requires a small amount of daily attention. If they were all still live, by now you'd never be able to sleep in order to tend to all of them. So what does the tear down look like? When projects get wrapped up, why? Is there a post-mortem about cost or enjoyment or usefulness, or does your eye of Sauron of curiosity just swivel elsewhere?
I love that you can say regular random stuff and it makes sense.
I like the composition of the sandwich
I've heard that if you only harvest the part of the water cress that's at least an inch above water, you'll never get flukes. They tend to hang out on the stem in the water.
That's what I heard (and the link in the description claims). I don't know if I'd trust that as apparently the flukes can move through just a film of water on vegetation (for example if it is raining)
The google maps tour of the commercial farms was really cool!
Will be interesting to see the progress
We love watercress too, raw and in soup - so watching with interest.
I rewatched this 3 times so I can remember how to build a planter table also,,,,,,,,all I can do is be confident and try! Thank you, love your videos.
I really like this idea, I wonder if it could be adapted to other things like seaweed. My only reference point of the liverfluke is from the Good Life during the pig-keeping episodes. (My up to date cultural references coming to the fore again!).
It's great to see you using your corded drill to drive screws in. That took me back a bit.
A fabled corded drill out in the wild, mesmerising
I love the step drainage idea. Looking forward to seeing how well it works.
I love these kinds of videos. Thank you for returning us to "normal"
Thank you for the perfectly timed diagram, I was struggling to visualise it just as you were explaining it.
Good luck 👍
Man, I'd never heard of this in the UK, just the little cress-growing activity at school (if it's the same plant). When I moved to Brazil I found it much more commonly, or maybe just because I was going to the supermarket more, lol
I love the inventive stuff like this. Looking forward to seeing if it grows. Good luck!
Another top notch shrimp video idea can't wait to see the updates!
thank you for doing the montage and Jenny's input, wholesome! great video as always.
Serious sandwich envy here. Also really great to find out how to grow watercress, I'm going to give it a go.
Very neat idea, I must say I am a big fan of land cress, to me it is almost the same as water cress and grows like crazy 👍🏾
You are a bit of a unicorn among British youtubers who make food videos.Most of them I have watched,including those trying American Food like it's actually eaten by Americans,seem to avoid fresh vegetables at all costs,including scraping fresh tomatoes off plates.This is incomprehensible to me,unless you're allergic to something you don't discard it,at least if you are a real grownup.You not only eat fresh veggies you seek them out and grow them.
Yeah, I truly don't understand the 'eww! veggies!' thing. I sometimes wonder if popular culture subtly conditioned children to hate vegetables by overplaying the trope of parents trying to feed reluctant children Brussels Sprouts or something. I love almost all vegetables (cucumbers suddenly started tasting weird to me and that's really the only thing I avoid).
I can honestly say that this will work,we did the same setup as a filter unit for a small fishpond,warning,be pepared to eat watercress with every meal! Enjoy
Rooting from bought produce is a favorite around here. Many pounds of potatoes from a supermarket spud, etc. Next I'll try watercress, expensive but I might get that after crop.
Just Gonna Say, I Love a Good Montage.
Look forward to an the next instalment of this! Thanks for sharing!
I was shocked to see three pickle slices on that sandwich.
by the fourth I was flabbergasted
and I LOVE pickles
Absolutely delightful
very comforting to watch
I'm looking to start a tiny herb garden in my house month. I hope it works. I'm not outdoorsy but I hope to snip a few things into my supper next fall.
My city used to be one of the largest producers of watercress before the military base was built on the land
that is so cool. Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful weekend
Brilliant 👏 Looking forward to the updates👍
I thought I'd put one of my DIY videos on at first. Good luck with your watercress.
looking forward to how it goes! I'm going to setup my yearly summer balcony garden soon. The temperatures have finally risen enough in northern europe, just wish all the snow would melt already...
While it might eventually save some money, the biggest pro by far if it works will be the freshness of the cress. All bagged leaves seem to get at least moderately bruised and they're often older than ideal. Fresh picked has to be better. I wonder if there's anything in particular you can feed it to affect the taste towards whatever your preference is? Anyways best of luck!
Would you be willing to do a fridge/ pantry tour? I would love to see all that you have and how you store your items. Yes! People do want to see this. Lolol 😊
I would love to see you try and set up a low mainatainence 'natural' aquarium with a food web inside
I second this
The worst part of atomic shrimp videos is when they end :')
Really excited for follow ups!
Thank you so much for making these videos
Your videos have gotten me interested in trying to grow something, anything really, but where I live space is pretty limited. I have about a square meter on the balcony of my apartment I could use. Any suggestions on what I could grow? Or maybe you could turn this into a “confined spaces city garden” kindof challenge. To see how much you could grow in a 1/1m square
Glorious. As always 😃
Love it!
Awesome job on that setup
My aim is to one day be as good as you are at DIY jobs projects. Thank you endlessly, Atomicshrimp!
I like the way the word "spigot" sounds, reminds me of like elves, magic, woods, spriggan and such!
Wasn't he a unidexter?
@@mark314158 I don’t know what that means, I tried binging it and it seems like it might mean having only one leg. I don’t see the connection though, I’m not from an English speaking country (Slovenia) so it could just be a cultural thingy that I’m missing.
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@@mark314158 Wow! This is amazing and very funny! Thank you for bringing this gem to my attention! “You’re deficient in the leg division to the tune of one 😆 I love your right leg however!”
When using a saw it’s generally easier if you point your index finger towards the blade, with only three fingers in the handle.
I didn't experience any difficulty
Lovely peppery cress, hooray!
Fantastic!
That sandwich was next level!
I don't think, I've ever eaten watercress. Have to look out for it, when I go shopping somewhere fancier than Lidl next time.
That sandwich looked so 😋
Wonderful video! 😊
You are a true giant amongst men, strong sandwich game, check. Strong taste in shirts, check. Homer Simpson-style woodwork skills that end up looking very professional, check. Good luck and I look forward to seeing an update on the watercress situation!
I'm here for the Wasserspielpumpen-Set!
I've enjoyed watching you make a lot of very tasty looking food shrimp but my oh my does that sandwich take the biscuit. Lordy!
I love watercress! I’ll be watching for progress with interest 😎
I love this! Please video when it is up and recirculating, I'd love to see the system as a whole!
I have some Barbarea vulgaris aka winter cress in my garden. Quite invasive but as peppery as watercress.
who cares if the solar pump pays for itself, the coolness of having an automatic farm is value in itself
Great vid
So the river critters getting eaten isn't a fluke
Correct. They're doing it on purpose!
This set up is lovely. It should work well.
I have a small 300gal goldfish pondcwith a waterfall and upper pond that holds 100 gallons.
In summer i spend about $1.50usd on a bundlecof water cress and i put it into the waterfall section of the fish pond. Once it really takes off, I break off bits for the goldfish and small koi to eat. They absolutely love it.
The fish waste in the pond set up keeps itvreally nice and green all summer. End of summer, during the fall clean up it all goes to the chickens and the goldfish come inside to the holding tanks
It grows wild everywhere around my place but it's full of parasites and pesticides, as well.
In my country they call it berro and I have a love/hate relationship with it but that sandwich looks amazing!