Oriental vegetable seeds and speciality leaves

Oriental Vegetable seeds, mustard, Japanese Greens Mibuna, Leaf radish, Minutina, Lemon Grass, Komatsuna, Senposai, Oriental Vegetable Mixtures, stir fry

Salad leaf / Oriental vegetable Seeds
Oriental and speciality vegetable leaf seeds

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Vitamin Green Av 250 seeds £1.50
21 days baby leaf 45 days mature
A delicious leafy green vegetable, a member of the brassica family smooth leaves up to 30cm x 10cm are a deep green in colour. Tender leaves are full of flavour, harvest leaves when small for stir-fries, salads or steaming. Slow to bolt and continually provide new leaves over a long harvest period. Tolerant to both heat and cold. Sow early spring to mid summer.
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Mizuna / Mibuna
25 days baby leaf 55 days mature plants

Japanese Greens 'Mibuna' Av 300 seeds £0.90
Brassica rapa var japonica
Very similar in most resects to Mizuna, but with a stronger flavour and dark green narrow strap like leaves. See below.

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Japanese Greens 'Mizuna'       Av 300 seeds          £0.90               IMAGE
Brassica rapa var japonica
Mizuna Greens, Mizuna Mustard, Pot Herb Mustard, Kyona
Annual/biennial oriental low growing greens with a lovely peppery flavour, dark green serrated leaves on slender white stems. Leaves used raw or cooked in salads or stir-fry, soups. young flowering stems can be cooked like broccoli. Can be sown at intervals from April to September outside, or inside in winter use as a cut and come again crop. Sow seed in pots or modules. Plant out   @ 15cm (6in.) apart in full sun, will tolerate light shade. Runner up in RHS taste tests to leaf radish Saisai.

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Leaf Radish Saisai Av 90 seeds £1.00 IMAGE
Rated the best Oriental leaf in taste tests by the RHS. A great punchy flavour, juicy and tender pale green succulent leaves for use in salads and stir-fry, a hybrid that has been developed for using at the young tender leaf stage. Saisai is slow bolting and can be grown all year round, ready for harvesting in 30-40 days. Sow early spring and autumn under cover, spring and summer outdoor, sow thickly in close drills.

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Hong Vit - leaf radish

Hong Vit Leaf Radish 2g pkt Av 150 seeds £1.25
Radish - Raphanus sativus
A pink stemmed leaf radish. Fast growing with hairless leaves and pink stems, mild radish flavour. Harvest as baby leaves, baby veg or full sized bunched leaves for soups, salads or stir fries.

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Lemon Grass West Indian Av 500 seeds £1.20
Cymbopogan citratus Tender Perennial
Lemon grass West Indian the most popular lemon grass for cooking, a Tropical West Indian delicacy, lemon flavoured grass. Used in Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian and Asian dishes. It adds a Lemon tang to Stir Fries, Soups and many Chinese culinary delights. Magical powers of lust, snake repellent and psychic powers. A tropical Zone plant will not withstand temperatures below 10 degrees it is best grown indoors during colder months / all year round, in a conservatory, greenhouse or on the Kitchen windowsill, grow on the patio during the summer months. Also acts as an insect deterrent. Grow in moist, fertile well drained soil in full sun will tolerate light shade.

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Lemon Grass East Indian Av 500 seeds £1.20
Cymbopogan flexuosus Tender Perennial
Lemon grass East Indian Has a delightful lemon scent and is used as a tea herb. The plant yields an oil that is used in cosmetics, perfumery and aromatherapy. The leaves used for tea and pot pourris. Commonly used for Acne, fevers, poor circulation, athletes foot, sports injuries.
Sow under glass spring onwards 20 deg C night 30 deg C day cover lightly. Requires a Fertile soil and a sheltered site min temp 6 deg C. Grow indoors during winter.

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Minutina 1,000 seeds £0.90
( Erba stella ) Plantago coronopus 50-60 days
Winter hardy salad leaf for all year round production. Produces rosettes of slender green leaves of a crunchy texture for salads. Flower buds can also be eaten.

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Mustards
Quite a hardy vegetable, cold tolerant, sharp flavour ideal in salads and stir fry. The mustard flavour strengthens with age of plant.
25-30 days baby leaf 55 days mature plants

Mustard Osaka Purple

Mustard Osaka Purple
Brassica juncea
Av 500 seeds
Mild for lightly cooking and salads, baby or mature leaf production. Matures at 30-35cm tall, and has medium-green leaves with purple-red veins and tinge. Succulent stems. Earlier and more refined, with broader stems and more compact growth, than Red Giant.
Harvest baby leaf 21 day, mature 40 day.

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Seeds for Oriental Mustard Golden Streaks

Oriental Mustard Golden Streaks
Av 500 seeds
An attractive sweet mustard with fine dissected leaves. Peppery flavour with a tender texture. Ideal in salads and stir-fry. Runner up in RHS taste tests to leaf radish Saisai.

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Mustard Green Wave Av 450 seeds Mild Flavour £0.90
Use baby leaf and full leaf
Highly attractive with frilly bright green leaves. A variety very slow to bolt. Sow seed shallowly. Sow spring in situ, summer and autumn either in situ or modules and transplant. Space/thin plants for harvesting as young plants 10-15cm apart, for mature crop up to 30cm apart.

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Mustard Green in Snow 1g pkt £0.90
Ideal for winter harvesting, sow from early autumn under cover. Dark green leaves with a jagged edge and contrasting white veins. Slow to bolt. Best sown late summer spacing for seedling crop sow at high density, for baby leaf plants 10cm apart up to 30cm for mature plants.

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Chinese Mustard Southern Giant Av 800 seeds £0.90
Brassica juncea crispifolia
Sharp-flavoured curly leaves are excellent in salads and sandwiches or cooked. Harvest when young and tender. Repeat sowings for a continuous crop.

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Mustard White Sprouting 50g Av 7,000 seeds £1.25
Sinapsis alba
Suited to punnet production and used in the sandwich trade and other specialist markets as used in mustard and cress punnet mixtures. Spicy flavour and used when 1-2cm long. Ready in 7 days. Seeds can be sown in a seed sprouter or in a jar with a muslin top. Keep seeds moist and clean by rinsing well twice a day and maintain a temp between 55 & 70 deg F. Seeds grown in the dark tend to be crisper. Can be sown outdoors as an excellent cut and come again crop. Sow in shallow drills.

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Mustard Green Av 800 seeds £0.90
Chinese Green, Chinese Mustard, Gai Cai, Gai Choy, India Mustard
Tender green leaves used in salads and stir fry. Winter Hardy. Leaves have a peppery flavour and are highly prized in Oriental cooking. The leaves & flowers can be used raw or cooked. The seed used whole in pickles and curries and to make 'Brown mustard'. The seed can be sprouted and used in salads. Seed sown from April to autumn in succession to provide a continuous crop, to prevent the plants from bolting delay sowing until June. Sow in shallow drills.

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Mustard Red Av 800 seeds £0.90
Brassica juncea
Red version of Green above

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Komatsuna Greens
Mustard Spinach
A hardy, vigorous cold tolerant vegetable. The flavour can be best described as a combination of mustard and cabbage with a hint of spinach,
delicious in stir fry. 25 days for baby leaf 55 days mature plants

Komatsuna Torasan seeds

Komatsuna Torasan Av 500 seeds £0.90
A uniform quick growing mustard spinach hybrid with light green juicy, tender stems. Dark green glossy leaves. Use in salads or stir fry. A cold tolerant variety for autumn. winter and spring production.
Quick and easy to grow and vigorous. Sow during spring summer and autumn in situ, late winter early spring and late autumn sowings under cover in unheated polytunnels/cloches for a winter to spring harvest. For a mature crop to harvest for greens during winter sow mid summer in situ. For seedling crop either broadcast sow or in wide drills. Mature crop sow in situ or transplant from modules space for small plants from 5cm apart up to 50cm for larger plants.
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Komatsuna Tokisan seeds

Komatsuna Tokisan Av 500 seeds £0.90
Similar to Torasan above. Suitable for sowing all year round and in general a heat tolerant variety.

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Senposai Greens
25 days baby leaf 55 days mature plants

Senposai Greens Av 100 seeds £1.10 IMAGE
One thousand treasure vegetable. Rarely available in the UK, a new hybrid between cabbage and komatsuna an alternative to baby greens excellent for stir fry, salads and pickling. Having the sweet taste of cabbage and being tender as Komatsuna. Grow all year round provide protection through winter months. Fast growing Ready in 30-35 days. Use for stir fry and salads.

The two types available differ in texture, leaf shape and colour.

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Edible Carrot Leaf

Carrot Edible Leaf Carrot
Daucus Carota var. sativa
Av 1,000 seeds
Edible carrot tops, something new to grow from seed for the salad bowl.
An interesting, edible form of smooth leaf carrot. Excellent to add to the salad bowl.

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Salad Leaf/Stir Fry Mixtures See Oriental Leaf Mixtures

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All information should be used as a guide only, as climatic conditions vary.