Mustard-Leaf Lettuce 'Red Mustard'

  • Product number: 695700
  • Origin: Asia
  • Latin: Brassica juncea

Pleasantly pungent sprouts in an attractive purplish-red colour, taking your salad to a higher flavour level!

This variety is grown as a microgreen (for the young plant with cotyledons or first true leaf). Microgreens are grown on moisture-retaining material (kitchen roll, cotton wool, soil). Keep dark and warm for germination, then light and cooler after germination.

Names:
Latin: Brassica juncea
Dutch: Mosterdsla-Kers
English: Red Mustard Cress

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Sowing method: Sow indoors early in warmth or outdoors from mid-June. Can also be sown outdoors later in autumn until early September. Plant or sow at 25x25cm spacing when sowing until August. After that, it can be sown closer together. As microgreen: Year-round, grown on moisture-retaining material (paper towel, cotton wool, soil). Keep dark and warm for germination, then move to a light and cooler place after germination.

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Sowing/planting time:

  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September

Harvesting time:

  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October

Soil type:

  • Hydroponics

Cultivation location:

  • Indoors
  • Outdoors warm / sheltered

Position:

  • Indirect sunlight
  • Flower colour: N/A
  • Origin: Asia
  • Average growth height: Up to 30 cm
  • Annual or perennial: Annual
  • Attractive to insects: N/A
  • Winter hardy: Not frost hardy
  • Ease of cultivation: Easy
  • Latin: Brassica juncea
  • Dutch: Mustard Lettuce-Cherry
  • Also known as: Not applicable / Not known
  • English: Red Mustard Cress
  • All year round

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