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(Best months for planting Mustard greens in Australia - cool/mountain regions)

P = Sow direct in garden where they are to grow.

• Easy to grow.
• Harvest in 5-8 weeks.
• Sow in garden. Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed.
• Best planted at soil temperatures between 10°C and 35°C.
• Space plants: 35-60cm

Green leafy plant, popular for Asian cooking.

Grow fast with plenty of water and regular feeds of liquid manure to avoid bitterness. Pick young.

Culinary hints - cooking and eating Mustard greens

Use young leaves in salad for a 'spicy kick'. Add to stir fry.

Your comments and tips

11 Apr 10 tony russell (Australia - temperate climate)

I would like to try growing some cof this but can't find any seeds or plants. Where can I get some ?

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25 Jul 10 darryl (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

hey man try ebay.. they got all sorts of seeds.

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27 Mar 10 wendy (Australia - temperate climate)

where can you grow them in what soil

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28 Feb 10 Caroline (Australia - temperate climate)

I have been looking for mustard greens seed and I can't find them in the traditional gardening stores, where can I find them?

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20 May 10 frank (Australia - temperate climate)

Can get a wide variety of mustard green seeds form seed clubs, ie diggers and greenseeds. Google for catalouge. Purple king is my faverout

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23 Nov 09 Erna Stein (Australia - temperate climate)

I have been growing mustard greens as a salad vegetable for a couple of years and simply love them. I have been starting them off from seedlings from the nursery however this year I've had trouble finding healthy seedlings and would prefer the convenience of growing them from seed. However I haven't had any luck in finding seeds. Can anyone tell me where I may be able to purchase them from?

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07 Jun 10 woody (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Try "the lost seed' on the net, I use their seeds and have had geat success in Tassie

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26 Sep 09 Melanie O'Connell (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

I share a garden bed with my neighbours from Burma who speak very little English. We have been growing mustard greens and they are now about 1m tall and covered in yellow flowers. At what point (and how?) do I start collecting seeds? Thanks very much.

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31 Aug 09 Allen Shiley (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

As a boy growing up the South of the USA we often ate mustard greens. Though they tend to be boiled with bacon or ham and stewed for at least 24 hours. Sometimes my grandmother would add a little sugar if the were bitter. We ate them much as you would boiled spinach.

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02 Jul 09 Trevor Heywood (Australia - temperate climate)

This Autumn and Winter I scattered mustard seeds around the place - a biodynamic book said to do that. When I'm weeding I see a nice mustard green I just eat it on the spot. Leave some patches to grow bigger and eat them chopped up in your dal/lentils - stem & all. Keep sowing them all the year.

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