Mizuna (Japanese mustard)
Mizuna (Japanese mustard): Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Mizuna is a Japanese leafy vegetable in the brassica family, alongside cabbages, radishes and mustards. It is valued for its light leaves and gently peppery flavour. Its appeal comes from texture as much as taste: it adds variety to salad mixtures without forming a compact head like a cabbage. It belongs among the Asian greens found in vegetable gardens and edible displays, with a character that is quite different from broad, smooth salad leaves.The plant forms a fairly open rosette of numerous leaves on slender stalks. The leaf blade is naturally toothed or deeply divided, sometimes with a feathery appearance. These are not leaves that have already been chopped. Depending on the cultivar, the divisions may be finer or broader and the colour can range from pale green to reddish purple. Those differences give individual selections their own visual character.Mibuna is a related vegetable, but its name is not another…
