Your cart

MUSTARD GREENS VARIETIES - Click Photo Below To Purchase

Southern Giant Curled
Southern Giant Curled

HEIRLOOM. A Southern favorite and the most commonly grown mustard for greens. Large green leaves are tightly curled on the margins. Slow-to-bolt,...
Old Fashioned
Old Fashioned

HEIRLOOM. A cool season, quick-to-bolt mustard popular in the Carolinas with long ruffled, flavorful leaves and good yields. The best mustard variety...
Greenwave
Greenwave

Bright green leaves, heavily curled and frilly. This very vigorous mustard does not bolt in the heat as quickly as most others. Hot mustard flavor...
Tendergreen, ORGANIC
Tendergreen, ORGANIC

This heat and drought resistant variety has oblong, smooth, green leaves with a very distinct, mild flavor. Matures extra early in only 35 days.
Florida Broadleaf
Florida Broadleaf

A large, semi-upright 16-22" spreading leafy plant with oval dark-green leaves that are 8-10" long. A traditional Southern favorite with rich flavor...
Tendergreen (Komatsuna)
Tendergreen (Komatsuna)

This heat and drought resistant variety has oblong, smooth, green leaves with a very distinct, mild flavor. Matures extra early in only 35 days.
Giant Red
Giant Red

HEIRLOOM. (B. juncea.) A Japanese mustard with large, thick, tender, deep purplish-red savoyed leaves with white midribs. Very slow-to-bolt with...

ALL ABOUT MUSTARD GREENS

Family: Brassica
Species: Brassica,sp
Difficulty: easy to grow
Sun: full sun/partial shade
Moisture: evenly moist
Sowing Method: direct seed or transplant
Planting: spring/summer/fall planted
Frost Tolerance: moderate frost tolerance
Tags: open-pollinated, non-hybrid

seeds per oz.:	15000
seed wt per row:	1oz.
yield per 100' row:	80 - 100 lbs
days to maturity:	30 - 45
time to viability:	4 - 5 years
soil temperature:	60 - 85
planting depth:	1/4"
seed spacing:	1"
row spacing:	18"
mature spacing:	4 - 8"
succession:	y
self seeding:	n

Description: Mustard greens are used in a variety of ways all around the globe, but may be most noted for their use in the preparation of Soul Food in the American South. Mustard greens favor cooler parts of the growing season and improve in flavor with the early frost. They were a favorite food of Martin Luther King who loved them with black-eyed peas. Nutrients: vitamins A, K, and C, folate, calcium, and manganese.

Guidelines: Growing: A Moderately frost tolerant biennial that is easy to grow by direct seed or transplant in full sun or partial shade. Mustards can be succession planted in the spring and again late summer through early fall for a continual harvest. Using season extension allows for harvests through the winter. Plant Seeds: 1/4"deep with 1" between seeds, in rows 18" apart. Soil Temp: 60-85?F. Days to Emergence: 3-12 Thin To/Mature Plant Spacing: 4-8" Seeds/Oz: 15,000. SeedWt./100' Row: 1/oz Average Yield/100' Row: 80-100 lbs Days to Harvest: 30-45 Seed Viability: 4-5 years Companions: Beets, Carrots, Dill, Lettuce, Onion, Spinach, Tomato, Nasturtium, Cilantro.

Companions: