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Mustard

LewisiumLewisium Posts: 122
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Im brand new to rhe world of mustard, I've pricked out 1 section and planted it into 4 separate, smaller clumps of 2 and 3 mustards, should I do them even thinner like 1 per 9cm pot? When it comes to harvesting, do I harvest the whole thing or just cut the leaves off? Do they not turn into small hedges and you harvest them solely for their seeds when bone dry? 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Have a look here … https://www.gardeningetc.com/us/advice/how-to-grow-cress

    scroll right down to Harvesting Cress 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LewisiumLewisium Posts: 122
    Dovefromabove said:
    Have a look here … https://www.gardeningetc.com/us/advice/how-to-grow-cress

    scroll right down to Harvesting Cress 😊 
    So should I pot them individually from the propagator or in clumps of 2 or 3? 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    What are you expecting them to grow into?  Yours look ready to harvest.  

    I'd have sown them more thickly, on a piece of flannel or folded paper towel.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LewisiumLewisium Posts: 122
    Dovefromabove said:
    What are you expecting them to grow into?  Yours look ready to harvest.  

    I'd have sown them more thickly, on a piece of flannel or folded paper towel.  
    I sowed them thickly first time but they got mouldy so wasn't as ambitious this time. Will the leaves have the mustard taste to them with leaves that small? 
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    If you are expecting to make actual yellow mustard from this plant I’m afraid you are in for a disappointment. This is mustard cress nice in egg sandwich .
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