Is a very beautiful so called mustard-lettuce from Japan. It decorates the garden with its big slightly wavy leaves of a bright green base colour and strong violet-wine-red highlights. The taste of the tender leaves and stems strongly resembles horse-radish and it is often used together with other vegetables, raw or cooked. A portion contains about 300 seeds.
Product number:
1030
Scientific name:
Brassica juncea
Botanic family:
The Mustard Family - Brassicaceae
Organic:
Yes
Days to maturity:
40
Lifespan:
Annual
F1 Hybrid:
No
New variety:
No
Sowing time:
March–April/July–August
Sowing depth:
1 cm
Germination time:
3–5 days
Plant spacing:
5–10 cm baby leaves/20–35 cm whole plant
Row spacing:
35–50 cm
Height:
30 cm
Plant location:
Sun–Shade
Harvest/blooming:
May/August–October
Seeds/g:
300–500 seeds
Other:
Long-day plant
Heirloom variety:
Yes
Cultivation advice
Sowing
Sow the seeds successively from very early spring until late summer. Sow them thinly, about 1 cm deep directly in the land or in hotbeds and greenhouses for an extra early or late harvest. Seeds sown in mid-July usually yield the best harvest.
Spacing
Should be thinned out to a mutual distance of 25-35 cm. The thinned out plants are edible. Keep a distance of 35-50 cm between the rows, if you sow in rows.
Harvest
Start picking the leaves early. The plants grow quickly and harvest the more or less close-knitted heads as they are ready. Several cabbage sorts begin blooming in summer, so do not delay the harvest. They tolerate quite a lot of bitter cold and can be eaten fresh far into the late autumn. Use them raw, boiled, preserved, fried in salads, soups, gratins, and stews etc.
Seed
1 g contains 300-500 seeds. For linear sowing 10 g is required to sow 100 metres.
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