Mizuna
Mizuna is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Traditional Japanese salad green with a mild crisp flavour and attractive feathery leaves; often grown as part of a salad mix, can be cut a few leaves at a time. Sow early spring and autumn.
Product: Mizuna
Product type: SEED (150)
Botanical name: Brassica rapa nipposinica
Syn.: syn. shui cai (China); kyona; Japanese mustard
Syn. Kyona, Japanese mustard. A traditional Japanese salad green that forms a large rosette of slender white stalks and attractive, feathery dark-green leaves. The flavour is mildly spicy and crisp. It is often grown as part of a salad mix and can be cut a few leaves at a time. Older leaves can be steamed as a spinach. It is heat and cold tolerant and slow to bolt. The flowers are attractive to beneficial insects.
Plant type: Annual cool season crop
Plant height: 35 cm
Sow when: Germinate best between 10 - 28°C
Temperate: Spring, autumn
Subtropical: March - May
Tropical: April - August
Germination: 3 - 10 days
Depth: 5 - 10 mm deep, cover with fine soil, firm down, keep moist
Position: Full Sun
Sow where: Sow direct
Soil type: Fertile, well drained, pH 6 - 6.5; heavy feeder, add compost
Rows: 40 cm apart
Details: Sow every 3 weeks for a continuous supply
Harvest: 21 days baby leaf, 40 days full size
Suitable for hot and humid: Suitable for hot and humid growing conditions
150 seeds per packet
Brassica rapa nipposinica
syn. shui cai (China); kyona; Japanese mustard
Annual cool season crop
Mizuna
Traditional Japanese salad green with a mild crisp flavour and attractive feathery leaves; often grown as part of a salad mix, can be cut a few leaves at a time. Sow early spring and autumn.