Scurvy Grass (Cochlearia officinalis) seeds

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Scurvy Grass (Cochlearia officinalis) seeds

Spoonwort is rich in vitamin C. The spoon-like leaves, which have a spicy, hot, cress-like taste and enrich every fresh salad, are harvested.
Contents: Approx. 400 seeds
Open-pollinated variety, seed tested regularly

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SKU: COC01

GTIN: 4250601201757

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Scurvy Grass (Cochlearia Officinalis) is an old crop plant that, until the last century, could still be found in many gardens. Its specialties are an enormously high Vitamin C content and the possibility of harvesting it in winter. The Vikings are said to have already taken it on board with them against scurvy. That's why this salad plant is also known as scurvy grass. Other names are common scurvygrass, buttercup and watercress.

Congenial to the application, Cochlearia Officinalis is originally home on the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast on the Northern hemisphere and grows wildly in salty, moist locations. Basically, it doesn't make special demands regarding the soil and grows everywhere. The spoon-shaped leaves, which have a hot, cress-like taste and enrich every fresh salad, are harvested. Apart from the heyday in May and June, the harvest of the leaves is possible all around the year.

As a medicinal plant, scurvy grass is said to help with spring fever and fatigue after hard physical labour.

Plant description

Species:	Brassicaceae
Flower colour:	White
Eventual height:	15-30 cm
Lifecycle:	Biennial
Flowering months:	April May June

Growing advice

Sunlight:	Shade Full shadow Full sun
Sowing depth:	0.5 cm
Planting distance:	25 cm
Row spacing:	30 cm
Germination temperature:	5-12°C
Germination time:	2-3 weeks
When to sow outdoors:	March April May August

Sowing period: Outdoors in spring in March and April or in autumn in August and September
Sowing depth: 0.5-1cm in rows
Ideal germination temperature: +5-15°C
Germination duration: 10-20 days
Row spacing: 20-30cm
Planting distance: 10-20cm
Location: Sunny to shady, very undemanding
Soil: Scurvy grass prospers very undemandingly on every kind of soil and especially likes salty, moist soils
Care: Keep free from weed in the sowing stage and water when dry as the leaves get very bitter otherwise. As it's a crucifer, male a sowing pause of four years after itself and other representatives of this plant family.
Harvest: Always harvest fresh and process it. This is possible any time except during the heyday. Then, the leaves don't taste.
Family: Crucifers (Brassicaceae)

Other names

Botanical name:	Cochlearia officinalis, Crucifera cochlearia var. officinalis, Draba cochlearioides, Eutrema rossii
German names:	Skorbutkraut, Löffelkresse, Scharbockskraut, Bitterkresse

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