Watercress

[TurqoiseJasper]

Why is this impossible to find in any supermarket or greengrocer???
I'm craving a watercress salad and can't find it anywhere!!!

Water weeds as my nan called them - ' a great delicacy to the English '. Nice with egg and mayonnaise. Come to think of it you don't see much outside of an egg sandwich hereabouts.

I don't mean the small cress that you'd see in an egg sandwich, the actual big leaf watercress that looks a bit like spinach but a round leaf. I really really want some 😪

Dunnes allege they have a rocket (bleurgh), Spinach (bit bleurgh), and cress (looks like watercress, not the little stuff) salad...

https://www.dunnesstoresgrocery.com/sm/delivery/rsid/258/product/dunnes-stores-peppery-wild-rocket-spinach-cress-leaves-120g-id-100834538

Also Fallon and Byrne (should have guessed that one, it's right up their street) - and if you're not near Dublin, it looks like they'd post it to you!

https://www.fallonandbyrne.com/shop/fruit-vegetables/vegetables/watercress-100g/

Tbh I can only imagine the state of it if you did manage to find it. Everything seems to be half rotten the day after it's bought 😡

I live near massive watercress beds and they haven't started harvesting yet - give it another week or so and hopefully you'll be sorted!

Waitrose in Marlborough had about four different brands/types of watercress yesterday. Have you got a Waitrose?

There's no Waitrose in Ireland @KnickerlessParsons.

Can't help with your dilemma @TurquoiseJasper, but similarly I can't find fresh edamame beans anywhere these days.
Maybe they're out of season too.

Thank you😂 I have bought that before, and it's all spinach and three bits of watercress

I only wish! Where do you live, because it never seems to make its way down to Mullingar 😂

Oh my bloody god I was in HomeSavers today and look what I found! €4.50 though..... They had one pack only!

That's not what I think of as water cress

This is water creas

You're right, watercress has the big leaf. I'm hoping the pic on the front are baby ones......

James Wong talks about growing watercress in a bowl outside, using pieces of shop bought watercress that's got roots on.

You're probably craving iron Op, tho you might just be an addict like me, cant get enough of the stuff!
Fortunately local Tesco and Sainsbury's regularly sell it and in the winter import it from Portugal.
I grew American land cress last year, very easy to grow and now is in flower/ going to seed, which I will collect and resow in late summer. Picture added.
Let us know how you get on with the packet of seeds.

I wish someone would grow it commercially in Ireland. I know a few places, up in the hills where there are no cattle, and spring water clean enough to not have to worry about, where I can pick it. Ironic that the early Irish poetry is full of references to it. Best thing in an egg sandwich, and makes a beautiful soup.

In sandwiches, the second best thing is nasturtium (so called because they taste like watercress) leaves or flowers. Too early in the year for them just yet, but put seeds in now - they grow fast.

I get watercress from Ocado but they don't sell the small cress in punnets so I have to go to Tesco for that. I love both varieties.

Unfortunately there's a lot that Tesco sells in the UK that it doesn't sell in Ireland ☹️
Rose Harissa Paste being one thing I've been looking for recently.
Fingers crossed @TurquoiseJasper that your horticultural ability delivers plenty of watercress 🤞

Im in Cork. I used to get it in Marks but haven't seen it recently. I use Princess Dianas soup recipe...
I can't find little cress anywhere. I like it too.
I want a Waitrose.

I'm an addict for sure..... Well I would be if I could bloody well get hold of some!
I honestly don't hold out much hope for those seeds, might have to do a day trip to Belfast and see if I can get hold of some.
Or even a quick Ryanair trip to Manchester with an empty suitcase 😂

Evergreen sell the rose harissa paste.

I'm tempted to try some of these - also hope that the fact that the seeds are available means someone in Ireland must be growing it.

https://brownenvelopeseeds.ie/products/copy-of-land-cress

https://www.irishplantsdirect.ie/Watercress-ORGANIC-Seeds

You need to get down to Alresford 19 May for the watercress festival. Plenty there to satisfy your craving.

That looks amazing 😀