Growing Mustard Greens

Mustard Greens

Mustard Greens

Mustard Greens have a striking peppery, zesty flavour and can be easily grown. They are too hot to eat raw but when cooked they loose the hotness and become mild and tasty. They are very hardy and mainly pest free.

Sow Seeds: July to September
Harvest: August to February

Where do I Sow? Raised Beds or Pots/Containers.

Varieties to Choose from:

iGrowVeg has grown the following varieties, click on the links for more information:-

  • Green Wave by The Real Seed Catalogue. Sowed 29th August 2009, stay tuned for progress.
  • Osaka Purple by The Real Seed Catalogue. Sowed 29th August 2009.

Other Suggested Varieties:

Mustard Green Seeds

Mustard Green Seeds

How To Sow Mustard Green Seeds

You will need:

  • A Raised Bed or Pot/Container,
  • Mustard Green Seeds,
  • A Trowel or garden cane,
  • Multi-purpose or potting compost,
  • Watering can,
  • Plant Labels.

Instructions:

  1. Refer to your own seed packet or take these instructions as a guide only.
  2. Fill up the pot/container with multi-purpose compost. Add some multi-purpose compost to your raised bed and rake level.
  3. Use a trowel or garden cane to mark straight lines (a row or trench) into the soil approx 1 inch deep.
  4. Water the row lightly.
  5. Open the seed packet and sow the seeds thinly if possible (but you can thin later) in the bottom of the 1 inch deep trench.
  6. Cover the seed with a sprinkling of compost.
  7. Water the compost well.
  8. Label the row at both ends.
  9. The seeds should not need watering again until they appear above the soil as seedlings. If sowing in pots, check the soil regularly as pots dry out quicker than raised beds.

How long will it take for seedlings to appear?

1 to 3 weeks depending on weather conditions.

Thinning the Seedlings
When the seedlings have been growing for about a 6 – 8 weeks, they may be growing too close together, therefore you will need to thin (pull out) a few of the seedlings to leave gaps for the seedlings to grow into bigger plants. You can thin as many times as you like, over the course of the plant growing.

If you feel a plant will need more room to grow, before you pull out the plant next to it, double check you do actually want to remove it. Sometimes crops can grow close together, you will just get a reduced size plant as it is competing with others in close proximately.

When the seedlings are young it is worth not thinning too harshly, leave most in place to help for those seedlings you may loose to pest or disease attacks. Then thin the weak seedlings to remove them from your plot to leave the strong growing plants.

Pests and Diseases of Mustard Greens

Click on the links below for more details on symptoms, prevention and treatments.

  1. Greenfly,
  2. Slugs and Snails,

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