- You will get 320 Seeds of Peppercress Heirloom Herb Seeds. - Sunlight: Full Sun. - Life Cycle: Annual. - Watering: Medium. - Pepper Cress seeds Lepidium sativum. - A fast-growing, edible plant botanically related to watercress and mustard and sharing their peppery, tangy flavor and aroma. - In some regions garden cress is known as garden pepper cress, pepper grass or pepperwort. Garden cress is a perennial plant most typically used as a garnish or as a leaf vegetable. - Growing cress is remarkably easy. It can be planted in late summer, as long as temperatures have cooled. Soak cotton wool or peat moss in water and stuff it into a small pot. Sprinkle seeds on top, and keep them well watered until they start to sprout. - Keep the cress in a light area, but not in direct sunlight, and keep watering. - As it matures, you can harvest the whole young cress or let it grow to a larger size so that it will develop big, peppery leaves. The cress will be usable within about five days of planting. - It is the easiest of the cresses to grow. Garden cress can be harvested in as little as two weeks after sowing as a micro-green. It?s peppery taste adds zing to salads, but hot weather makes this cool-season crop bitter and inedible. - Sunlight: - Full sun part shade. Prefers part shade during hot summer weather. - Soil conditions: - Requires well-drained soil. Prefers moist, fertile soil with high organic matter and pH 6.0 to 6.7 - How to plant: - Propagate by seed. Germination temperature: 55 F to 75 F. Days to emergence: 2 to 7 - In early spring when soils are cold (~45 F), germination may take two weeks. Seed can be saved 5 years. - Plant in early spring as soon as you can work the soil. Broadcast seed and cover very lightly with soil or compost. A small patch (1- to 2-feet square) provides plenty of cress. Make succession plantings every 2 to 3 weeks until weather warms. Start planting fall crops when weather cools in late summer.