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Old 26-04-2007, 08:10 PM
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I think it's ready to harvest now!

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Photo of entire plant soon.
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Old 26-04-2007, 08:54 PM
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Excellent, well done, erm......what is it?
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Old 26-04-2007, 09:58 PM
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A continuation from this thread:

Where do cress seeds come from?
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Old 26-04-2007, 10:53 PM
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So that's cress???....
Well blow my socks off!!!!
So what you gonna do with it now- other than collect the seeds???
Are the leaves edible???
...or is that rocket????

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Old 27-04-2007, 09:15 AM
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Wonder what the flowers taste like.....try one?????
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Old 27-04-2007, 09:27 AM
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Look like rocket flowers me thinks Nicos.
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Hi Gardener, it looks lovely but it's bolted. Rocket tastes much better when it's small & I usually snap off any flower heads which start to appear to prolong the season. If you leave one or two to self seed though if you have them outdoors then you should get it coming up again next year.
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Old 27-04-2007, 04:43 PM
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Look like rocket flowers me thinks Nicos.
Dohhh....I've just realised that now that I've re-read the title of the thread!!!
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Old 04-05-2007, 07:44 PM
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It's bolted alright! It's been difficult to get good pictures as it's becoming quite massive. Here's one for now:

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...an/rocket5.jpg

And a focus on the flowers:

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...an/rocket2.jpg

The leaves taste awful, even on a normal sized plant which i'm also growing. I haven't tried the flowers yet. I only wish they were psychedelic! ...
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