As I finished off a jar of mustard seed yesterday, making a curry, it suddenly occurred to me that I could probably grow my own!
Have any of you done this, and have you got any tips on which variety would be best?
Growing Mustard for Seed
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I found this link for you, most things seed pretty easily, and prolifically the hard part is getting it at just the right stage to keep it for a length of time, but if you could find a suitable recipe you could preserve it Good luck.
http://www.saskmustard.ca/grower/index.html
http://www.saskmustard.ca/grower/index.html
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Thanks for that.
It makes very interesting reading. I'm really tempted to give it a go, but I don't think I'll be growing it on the scale that they are talking about!
It makes very interesting reading. I'm really tempted to give it a go, but I don't think I'll be growing it on the scale that they are talking about!
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yes couldn't find a small scale reference !Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconcieved notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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Hi Mouse
You would need to leave the plants in the ground till their second year - they get very big when flowering and seeding - 6 feet or more with some of the Japanese mustards I have pulled up and fed to the hens recently.
You can buy 100 gram packets of mustard seed in Asian stores for about 75 pence, so why bother?
You would need to leave the plants in the ground till their second year - they get very big when flowering and seeding - 6 feet or more with some of the Japanese mustards I have pulled up and fed to the hens recently.
You can buy 100 gram packets of mustard seed in Asian stores for about 75 pence, so why bother?
alan refail wrote:Hi Mouse
You can buy 100 gram packets of mustard seed in Asian stores for about 75 pence, so why bother?
Well, when you put it like that .....
On the other hand, I have the space available, so maybe I'll try it anyway!
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
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