Use in salads. Spinach bolts in warm weather, although these varieties are slower to bolt than others. Plant the spring crop in April and the fall crop in August. Not related to Garden cress. Water cress beds usually are established around limestone springs in clean, running water.
Few Gardeners can produce it because it requires such a unique aquatic habitat.
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