Tags: Open Pollinated

Growing Practices:

Latin Name: Brassica juncea

Days to Maturity: 60+

Description:

These mustards are very spicy! They're great as a light addition to salads when young and tender or for cooking greens like collards. Cooking kills their spiciness. They naturally reseed for me, are deer and rabbit-resistant, and provide an abundance of flowers for insects in spring.

North Florida adapted.

Seeds can be used to make an extremely spicy mustard. Easy to harvest.

Story of this Seed:

I have been saving seeds of these for about 6 years. They now are fairly well naturalized and don't require much work to grow. I think it started as a green large-leaf mustard, a purple frilly mustard, and a jeok gat purple mustard. The colors switch and leaf variations change year to year.

Growing Tips:

Best direct seeded. Further spacing makes for bigger plants. I typically sow them thickly and then weed out the less vigorous for eating to let the more vigorous ones grow larger. They'll adapt to whatever growing style you use.