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Sds/g: 500                             Feed Requirements: Moderate – High (spr)                   Usual Seed Life:3-4 years

Cultural Notes:

• Mustard greens love the cooler weather and can be eaten through winter if sown at the end of summer and early autumn. Choose the more frost tolerant varieties that will provide you with some pungent greens into winter and will not bolt until spring.
• Mustard greens usually provide our first spring greens from the garden. We plant either with our lettuce or just before, as they are quick growing we are able to harvest them before our lettuces have come on. They will goto seed in November as the days lengthen. 
• Mustard greens are full of nutrients, providing good to excellent amounts of 8 vitamins, 7 minerals, dietary fiber and protein; and being a member of the Brassica family they also contain health-promoting phytochemicals.
• Provide plenty of nitrogen in your compost/fertiliser mix to allow really fast growth. Sow seeds 1cm deep in rows 40-50cm apart. Thin to 30cm apart in spring and 35-40cm apart in autumn.

Problems:

• Slugs and snail in early spring.

Harvest:

• Harvest leaves as needed and unopened flowers when they have gone to seed.