Mustard – Red

Description

Great for a bit of a peppery taste, can get fairly hot! Winter hardy and slow to bolt with lime-green leaves beautifully overlaid bright purple on the veins and outer edges. Sweet, zesty and mild, full of vitamins and minerals, harvest at 15cm for salads or allow to grow to 45cm for steaming or stir-frying. Older stems are very good pickled

Sow Feb-May and Aug-Sep outside, or all year round on a warm windowsill. Sow sparingly in drills outside, or multis into a small pot and trick out later on. Germination takes 5-10 days. Allow 2cm spacing for cut and come again, 20cm spacing for whole plant harvesting. Autumn planted seeds are for over wintering and would benefit from cloche protection. Best cropped at 15cm but can grow to 30cm. Can harvest individual leaves as cut and come again for salads or harvest the whole plant for stir-fry. Use scissors for cutting to avoid plant damage. Once weather becomes hot mustard greens become tough and bitter.