The 'Red Frills' leaf mustard is a vegetable you should consider growing in the coming season. This plant delivers tasty edible leaves that surprise with their taste. The foliage with mustard-peppery taste perfectly fit into salads, taste well with cottage cheese and eggs. The mature plants constitute great addition to Asiatic dishes. Please remember that the leaf mustard does not have to be eaten raw only. This vegetable can be steamed, roasted or pureed into sauces.

The seeds of the 'Red Frills' leaf mustard allow you to enjoy delicious, crimson red leaves. The frilled, pinnatisect leaves form dense rosettes. You can harvest single leaves with stalks or the entire rosettes. Removing of young stalks stimulates the plants to stronger spreading.

You can start the culture in a seed bed already in March or April. The seedlings are then transplanted to the target site at the end of May or at the beginning of June. Direct sow to the field should take place in May, July and August. Sow the seeds only 0.5 to 1 cm deep in rows 30 x 60 cm apart. The leaf rosettes appear rather quickly and are later followed by the flowering stalks.

The short vegetation period that lasts 3 - 4 weeks should definitely encourage you to grow this vegetable. Its seeds can be sown as main crop or aftercrop. It is perfectly suited for the all year cultivation in greenhouses (tunnels). It does not present any problems, as it will thrive in almost every kind of soil, provided the site is sunny and regularly watered. The plant is resistant to low temperatures and handles small frost quite well.

One package contains 0.5 grams of seeds. The basic growing tips and the sow-by date can be found at the back of the package.

• Use: eat directly after the harvest - raw or cooked
• Foliage: frilled, pinnatisect, crimson leaves
• Site: sunny; regularly watered soil
• Weight (in grams): 0.5 g