Mibuna

Mibuna

Brassica rapa japonica

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• Asian vegetable, salad green

• Mild mustard flavour

• Good for baby leaf

Plants form dense clumps of fine white or pale green stalks with spoon shaped green leaves that have a mild mustard like flavour. Leaves are most commonly used as a salad green but are also excellent pickled or cooked in stir fries, soups and rice dishes. Fast growing. Cold tolerant. Good for microgreens.  Good for baby leaf production; ready in around 25 days.

How to sow and grow:

Method:	Raise seedlings
Sowing Depth:	5mm
When:	Spring and autumn
Germination:	4-10 days @ 18-24°C
Hardiness / Life Cycle:	Frost hardy Annual
Plant Spacing:	20cm
Plant Height:	35cm
Position:	Part or full sun, moist soil
Days to Maturity/Flowering:	55 days (25 days for baby leaf)

*Notes: Cut leaves and stems at any stage of growth as required. Can be treated as a cut and come again plant or plant can be harvested whole when mature.

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