Early Spring Plants?

[koiguy1969]

Does watercress need to be potted or are they bare rootable?

 

[mrsclem]

I'm just going to stick them in the pea gravel in the bog.

 

[Malak]

I read that it can be free-floating. Was going to grow it in a veggie filter for personal consumption till read about the possibility of liver flukes - ich!

 

[addy1]

ewwwwwwwwwww liver flukes
wash it in bleach lol then eat next time I go shopping will check it out in the salad section.

 

[Malak]

But are they external? Thought they may be in the plant like E. Coli does to lettuce etc.

 

[addy1]

My understanding is it puts a cyst like structure on the plant, which then gets eaten then gets into your body.
Snails are involved in the life cycle.

I would have to read about it to recall more lol

 

[stroppy]

Does watercress need to be potted or are they bare rootable?

you can grow it in the top of your filter, or you could try it in your floating planters ...it does best in flowing water, to keep it growing cut it back every now and again :0)

 

[stroppy]

I read that it can be free-floating. Was going to grow it in a veggie filter for personal consumption till read about the possibility of liver flukes - ich!

yes they can carry it ... i wouldn't eat it if i were you but it does make a very good plant for eating your nitrates

 

[j.w]

Remind me never to eat watercress :bouncycig:

 

[Malak]

Stick with Whacky Weed. lol

 

[addy1]

Stick with Whacky Weed. lol

Laughing malak, and it is good for you...............

 

[addy1]

Remind me never to eat watercress :bouncycig:

Liver flukes can be on anything you eat jw, it is a critter (cow or others) doing its thing that gets into the water that the snail eats the stuff, then off on to the plant then into your tummy.

 

[j.w]

Well that is just whacky (no ganja malak) addy, and so what do these liver flukes do to our livers? And how do you keep them off your veggies, just wash or what? Ewwwwwwww, it's creepy :bouncycig:

 

[addy1]

Wash and most veggies are not grown where critters do their thing that close to the growing.

http://www.google.com/search?q=live...mGcuD0QH_s_mCCQ&ved=0CBkQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=676

 

[Malak]

Addy is the mistress of links, methinks.