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Growing Mustard for Seed
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 3:01 pm
by The Mouse
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?
Re: Growing Mustard for Seed
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 8:45 pm
by Nature's Babe
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
Re: Growing Mustard for Seed
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 9:59 pm
by The Mouse
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!
Re: Growing Mustard for Seed
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:14 pm
by Nature's Babe
yes couldn't find a small scale reference !
Re: Growing Mustard for Seed
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:41 pm
by alan refail
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?
Re: Growing Mustard for Seed
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 6:03 pm
by The Mouse
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!
