Flowers
Mustard 'Red Frills'
Brassica juncea
A fast-growing mustard with deeply serrated red tinged foliage. A good cut-and-come-again crop. Suitable for outdoor growing spring-summer, but indoor windowsill growing all-year-round.
- Plant type
- Hardy Annual
- Position
- Full sun
- Height
- 45cm
- Spread
- 45cm
Growing calendar
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Sow indoors
Sow outdoors
Harvest
Sowing & growing
Sow thinly in a well prepared seedbed Feb-Apr or Jul-Oct. Sowing 5mm deep in drills. Thin to 10cm apart for cut-and-come-agin or 25cm apart for full-grown Mustard. Alternatively sow thinly in pots or trays on the windowsill all year round for a regular supply of baby mustard leaves for salads/microgreens.
Aftercare
Sow every 3-4 weeks for a continuous supply of microgreens or every 6-8 weeks for young salad leaves.
Gallery
Ref. SEM022