Mizuna Seeds
Vegetable Garden � Tips on Growing Mizuna Greens From Seed
70-75 Days for Leaf Harvest
This is a staple item for salad mix or can be used as a bunched green. Deeply serrated medium-dark green leaves on long white pencil- thin stalks. Vigorous and prolific for extended harvests. Slow to bolt; cold tolerant. Mild mustard flavor.
I can certainly say how valuable this addition is to any vegetable garden. They are easy to grow, nutritious, flavorful and surprisingly hardy. They can transform vegetable gardening from the normal to a new addition.
DIRECT SOW
- From early spring, when the soil can be worked, direct sow the Mizuna seeds 1" apart, with a seed depth of ��.
- Germination Soil Temperature: 40-55�F (4-13�)C.
- Germination period is 6-10 days.
- Sow indoors: Late fall through early spring.
- Harvest tender young leaves, as older leaves have a very sharp taste.
GROWING
- pH range of 6.1-7.0
- Growing soil temperature of 50-65�F (10-18�)C.
- Watering: Moderate and even.
- Sunlight: Full sun to partial shade,
NUTRIENT REQUIREMENTS: N=LOW, P= LOW, K=LOW.
ROTATION CONSIDERATIONS:
- Avoid following plants from the Cabbage family.
- Good Companions: Bush bean, beet, carrot, celery, cucumber, dill, lettuce, mint, nasturtium, onion family, potato, rosemary, spinach and thyme.
- Bad Companions: Pole bean and strawberry.
USDA Hardiness Zone -First Frost Date- Last Frost Date
- Zone 1 -July 15th -June 15th
- Zone 2 -August 15th- May 15th
- Zone 3 -September 15th May 15th
- Zone 4 -September 15th May 15th
- Zone 5 -October 15th April 15th
- Zone 6 -October 15th April 15th
- Zone 7 -October 15th April 15th
- Zone 8 -November 15th March 15th
- Zone 9 -December 15th February 15th
- Zone 10 -December 15th January 31st (sometimes earlier)
- Zone 11 -No frost. No frost.
GARDEN HINTS: All Greens grows well under a wide variety of conditions. Prefers full sun, and grows best in cool weather, with a regular watering schedule. and grows 3-4' tall.
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