Kyona Mizuna
(Brassica rapa (Japonica group))
Product ID: 512
Essential salad mix ingredient.
Unique mustard green of Japanese origin, producing rosettes of dozens of pencil-thin, white stalks and deeply cut, fringed leaves. Mild flavor. Continues to produce several weeks from one planting, regrowing after cutting. Wider leaves add weight to your mix. Mini: 220 seeds.
Plant Cycle: (A) Days to Maturity or Bloom: 21 baby, 40 full size
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Diseases Explained:
No disease information found.
Growing Information:
Asian
CULTURE: Sow from early spring through midsummer. In the South, greens are well adapted to fall plantings. Sow 15 seeds/ft., 1/4" deep in 2" wide bands in rows 18" apart. Harvest before flowering. For salad mix: In a 2" to 4" wide band sow 60 seeds/ft. Clip 4-5 wk. old leaves. PESTS: Flea beetles can be controlled with rotenone or pyrethrin, or better yet by covering with floating row cover (see Index) from day of sowing. AVG DIRECT SEEDING RATE: For bunching: 830'/oz., 13,000'/lb. At spacing above. For salad mix: 210'/oz., 3,300'/lb. at above spacing. SEED SPECS: Seed counts and seed size in this grouping vary. AVG. SEEDS/OZ.: 12,500. AVG. SEEDS/LB.: 200,000. MINI: 0.5 gm. unless otherwise stated (avg. 220 seeds, sows 10').
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Cold Tolerant Variety does well at lower temperatures and may even be frost hardy. |
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Micro Mix Component A mixture of greens harvested at the seedling stage. Eaten fresh as a salad ingredient. |
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Performs well in greenhouses Variety does especially well when started in, or grown in, a greenhouse environment. |
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Salad Mix Component A mixture of lettuce and greens with different colors, flavors and textures, harvested at a tender, baby, bite-size stage. For fresh salads. |
