Grow your own Watercress
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- čas přidán 31. 03. 2010
- Watercress is among the most highly nutritious vegetable, many of the great herbalists wrote of the revitalizing power of watercress. The health benefits of watercress are attributed to its nutrient content. Watercress is an excellent source of vitamins B1, B2, B6, C, E, manganese, and carotenes. It also a good source of calcium, fiber, iron and copper. Watercress livens up raw salad and it also makes a valuable juice. Watercress juice is a green juice and must not be consumed alone. It also tastes bitter and is much easier to swallow if mixed with carrot, potato, and a little parsley or carrot, spinach, and turnip leaves. For optimal health benefits, eat watercress raw and as fresh as possible.
Health Benefits:
* Watercress contains anticancer properties.
* Watercress helps protect the eyes because it contains a high level of two carotenoids, lutein and zeaxanthin.
* Watercress helps to normalize cholesterol and blood pressure.
* Watercress increases sexual energy and enhances fertility.
* Watercress can help improved memory, mental function and to retard ageing.
* Watercress is a powerful cleanser of the body, especially the bloodstream.
* Watercress can help increase production of breast milk.
* Watercress is low in calories and high in potassium which is valued for weight loss, as its diuretic action draws excess fluid down and out of the body.
* Watercress helps improve digestion by regulating the flow of bile.
* Watercress is valued for clearing and improving the complexion.
* The chlorophyll-rich leaves are chewed to absorb breath odors.
* Chewing raw watercress leaves can cure bleeding gums.
* Watercress leaves are used as a poultice for the relief of enlarged prostate gland. The poultice can also treat swollen feet and sprained ankles.
* Watercress is a good source of iodine, which is important to the function of the thyroid gland.
* Watercress is rich calcium which can strengthen the bones and teeth.
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My family have been eating watercress from the wild for generations and nobody has ever got sick from eating it despite all our spring fed streams being surrounded by sheep and cattle...
I really like the water cress from my fish pond! It grows wonderfully in full sunlight and the constant flow of water brings all the nutrients it needs......... and it seeds itself around the garden. My bees love it!
Wild watercress is perfectly safe to eat if it comes from a clean watercourse and you wash and cook it thoroughly. It is an excellent wild edible that is very prolific once it is established.
I'm so lucky I can pick it of my grandpas land
Wow my favourite vegetables. 100% organic . Hi from Sabah Malaysia
Running spring water is insanely high in mineral content.
The key word being running !
That is what water cress thrive on. Not standing water.
Made the soup, with some minor variations (beef stock instead of vegetable). Great recipe, the pear works fine. I also left the grated ginger in entirely. Now I'm energized and going out to cut some lawn and firewood!
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Chinese people been eating this for thousands of years from the wild is the best! Big rivers and white sand! Not a man made pond or a pot with rocks lol.
Grew up in the eastern Himalayas and this vegetable was very common in the streams.
you have a beautiful kitchen !
Love that veggy!!!
Watercress is amazing stuff.... I love it!
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This video is not really about how to grow your own watercress - at least not primarily, anyway. Coupled with the thumbnail, the title and intro video is horribly misleading. I'm like: I'm going to have a pond full of watercress. So, now I need a spring? And I run the risk of liver fluke? What is a fluke? Some sort of liver inhabiting worm? That's just great. If I'm growing it in a pond filled with rainwater, will that work? Brilliant suggestion to just plant the watercress you buy! I like that. Skip the seeds. But with no soil, how long can that last? I want something that will last indefinitely. Also, really good that you list the plant fights cancer! I've been singing the praises of greens doing that for like 15 years, but now everyone is saying it - really great that the consciousness is there. If you look at nutrient density - amount of anticancer nutrients per calorie - the watercress may be the best possible food, but the oil you're using is one of the worst - it's pure calories and zero nutrients, so, maybe skip that, or just use a teaspoon. Thanks for the video and, especially, for the just plant the store bought cress - I really like that. You can do the same thing with leeks, if they come with roots - plant the end (after you eat the part you want) it will grow back and can be re-cropped or let flower and produce seeds.
I don’t know what kind of motivated me to buy a bowl some pebbles, some watercress, and grow it!
Yummy and nutritious
yummy yummy!!!!
my mum all ways said to only pick watercress if there was a R in the month
why do you reckon that mate?
We have an unused watercress bed in waltham abbey unfortunantly would be great to see it used again.
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If you steam or put boiling water on the watercress does it kill the liverfluke bacteria?
What is sustaining the watercress without soil ? Also, never seen rooted watercress available
Moari boil up with watercress straight from the creek been doing tht way me whole life never heard of anyone getting sick from watercress ?
I think the cooking makes you safe.
Only a crazy Englishman would eat watercress raw.
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I normally put mine in a smoothy
bruh I just picked the most healthy looking clean asf looking water cress off my farm ( we dont keep sheep ), I have been doing this for years how many liver flukes do I have?
Bought a bag at store, roots on it. Cut off greens, juiced it. Threw roots in old wheel barrow full of potting mix and compost. The plant is now the size of a large football? Is it edible since it was grown outside? With that liver thing, never heard of that.
LKN4WAR that’s carried by the snails in pond. It was quite common in rural China where people consume the snails and do not cook fully. The parasites will harm liver. I never see those in the US though, and if u grow in soil no need to worry. If u really worry, just sautee them.
Hey Ming Song - if I can presume you're Asian, it's starting to seem like the Asians have more experience than Americans with watercress, judging by the commenters names - of course, I know they have more experience with vegetables generally - some of us don't even eat veggies. We're retarded and paying the price. Although, if this video is any indication we're starting to wake up. Anyway, if I'm growing this in a pond (filled with rainwater), can snails appear? I've got frogs and mosquito larvae and algae appearing. Do snails find ponds if there's a pond nearby? Not sure how they propogate. Anyway, do I need to worry only if I'm eating snails, or if I'm eating raw watercress from a pond?
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Hi am a farmer from Mauritius and i plant only watercress for 25 years.Can you tell me how to control leaves miners please..
Yummy...
my family and i eat watercress just like salad...we loved the biter taste. I dont like much of watercress that are cook like that as a soup or grind like that but i think i might try your technique growing in the vase.
I like watercress I try grow but noting it
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I,m trying to find out if water cress has the same nutritonal value as garden nasturium. The young leaves have almost the same peppery taste and one can use the beautiful multi colored flowers too! I,ve looked everywhere on the net but can find nothing! Dan someone help me?
Well, as a practical solution - don't choose; eat both. Eat lots and eat lots of varieties - greens, non startchy veggies, berries, beans, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, seeds - all have very strong anti-cancer properties. And they work symphonically. While you're at it, limit animal foods severely and eliminate or limit processed or refined plant foods severely as well - flour, sugar, and oil and products made from them. Which one wins, watercress or nasturium leaves isn't that practically important. I'm hearing watercress is the best a lot now. I suspect there simply aren't as many studies on nasturium (what do you eat, just the petals?). But, again, you really need large amounts and wide variety to be safe. You might still need B12 and DHA.
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Wow
anemia sucks but having too much iron sucks even worse cause its hard to lower :P
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Isn't letting the wild take over the bed restoring it to its former glory?
Enjoy your liver flukes.
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