Mustard Greenwave
Mustard Greenwave has light green leaves that is tightly ruffled at the margins growing to 50cm ish tall. Greenwave has a strong flavour raw but the flavours are more subdued once cooked. Harvest regularly when small for best flavours. One of the more bolt resistant varieties in warmer weather but grows easy during the cooler months.
Sow: August to October and February to March (cool climate) can sow over summer for quick crops but will flower quicker.
Spacing: 40cm, rows 50cm.
Encyclopædia Britannica states that mustard was grown by the Indus Civilization of 2500–1700 BC. According to the Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission, “Some of the earliest known documentation of mustard’s use dates back to Sumerian and Sanskrit texts from 3000 BC”
Germination: Optimal Soil temperature is 18 to 22 C (around 5-10 days to germination)
