Mustard Ruby Streaks

Mustard Ruby Streaks
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Brand: Botanical Interests
Style: BI0199
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Mustard Ruby Streaks
Brassica juncea

Days to maturity: 20 - 40. Ruby Streaks will change your mind about mustards with its tempting beauty and mildly pungent flavor that's delicious fresh in salads, cooked in stir-fries or steamed. Cool fall weather deepens red color and enhances flavor. Ideal for planting in flower gardens or containers as a beautiful and edible ornamental. Harvest in 20 days for baby greens, 40 days for full size.

This packet plants two 12 foot rows.

Days to Emerge: 5 - 10

Seed Depth: 1/4"

Seed Spacing: A group of 3 seeds every 6"

Row Spacing: 12" - 18"

Thinning: When 1" tall, thin to 1 every 6"

When to sow outside: RECOMMENDED. 4 to 6 weeks before average last frost for summer harvest or in late summer, 8 to 10 weeks before average first frost.

When to start inside: Not recommended.

Harvesting: You may start harvesting leaves when they are 2" tall, as needed, or let plant grow to maturity and remove entire plant. Spring harvest should be complete before summer heat arrives. Late summer crops will last until the first hard freeze.

Artist: Libby Kyer



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