Cress Microgreens Seeds
Cress is a staple in the egg and mayonnaise sandwiches of the English. The microgreens with a peppery taste can be used in soups and salads as well. They are harvested within two weeks of sowing. American cress/Upland cress (Barbarea verna) also has a similar taste and flavor.
Recognized as a leading supplier of bulk commercial sprout and microgreens seeds, we are well-positioned to supply you with Cress seeds. We supply growers globally, and we’d love to have you as a new customer. Call now to get our latest seeds and pricing. We can be reached at (800) 277-7688.
Cress Microgreens Seeds for Commercial Growers
Cress is the fastest flavor in this catalog. It germinates almost immediately, it is ready while other crops are still deciding, and it arrives with a bright, peppery heat that chefs use the way they use black pepper or a squeeze of lemon. If you need a crop that can go from seed to a restaurant order inside a week, cress is it.
It has a long history in the trade, which helps. Cress is one of the original microgreens and one of the original windowsill crops, so the name carries recognition with older chefs and curiosity with younger ones.
Growing notes
Cress seed is small and mucilaginous, so like chia it gels slightly on contact with water. Do not soak it, seed it thinly on a firm even surface, and mist rather than flood. Penn State Extension groups cress with the brassica-family microgreens that can be harvest-ready in roughly seven to eight days, and in practice cress often beats that. The failure mode is overwatering a dense stand, because a damp mat with no air movement is where trouble starts on any fast crop.
- Clean, uniform seed. A mucilaginous seed cannot be rinsed clean after the fact, so the lot has to arrive right.
- Untreated and grown for food use.
- Germination figure and lot number with every order.
Food safety and documentation
Cress goes out raw. FDA’s sprout requirements in 21 CFR part 112, Subpart M treat the seed as the primary control point, and every lot we offer passes ISS food safety screening before it is sold, with documentation available on request.
Selling it
Cress is a chef item, sold on flavor intensity and speed. It belongs on the same sheet as arugula and radish, and it gives you something to offer when a kitchen asks for heat but does not want a mustard.
Questions about a lot, a germination figure, or which size makes sense for your run? Call us at (800) 277-7688 or send us a note. You will get somebody who has grown this crop, not a call center.
