We grow mustard at home

Most people associate mustard with a spicy seasoning for various dishes. However, this plant has many varieties that are used for different purposes. Therefore, for a start, it is worth deciding for what purpose you will grow mustard. If you need mustard as an early green, grow salad or dove. White is suitable as a siderat. Black mustard is prized for its pungent and spicy taste. Consider the simplest option for growing lettuce (leaf) mustard right on your windowsill.

Preparing the soil. The best option for mustard is a mixture of vermicompost and coconut fiber. Calculation 1: 2, respectively;

You can plant mustard immediately in a large container or in a small container, followed by transplanting. Plastic or peat cups should be used as a temporary "home" for mustard. At the bottom of the container we lay drainage - a layer of expanded clay, 2-3 centimeters thick.

We put mustard seeds in the soil no deeper than 1.5 centimeters, having previously moistened the ground well. It is advisable to cover the pot with cellophane before the first shoots appear. They usually appear 3-5 days after disembarkation. As soon as 3-4 mustard leaves appear, we transplant it into a permanent container.

The mustard should be watered regularly and abundantly, since drying out accelerates the process of shooting the plant. The first edible greens can be cut off after 2-3 weeks.

It is also possible to grow mustard "for salad" outdoors, since the plant is cold-resistant. You can start planting the plant in April, and if under the film - then in March. Seeds are laid in shallow beds (1-1.5 centimeters), well watered. Excessive seedling density should not be allowed. To do this, the mustard is thinned out, leaving the seedlings at a distance of 10-15 centimeters from each other. Collect greens in 2-3 weeks.

It should be remembered that it is best to grow salad mustard in spring, at the end of summer or in autumn, when the air temperature is not too high, otherwise the mustard goes into the arrow and its leaves become coarse. But mustard tolerates frosts well. The plant will survive even when the temperature drops to -5.

On the market and store counters, and therefore on our tables, there are more and more healthy products: vegetables, fruits, herbs.

Increasingly, herbs such as basil, arugula or salad mustard are becoming available, the cultivation of which is possible on your own in your garden. It is so unpretentious to care for that it can grow without good lighting in almost any land - both in the open field and on the windowsill.

Mustard leaf: growing in the open field

Soil preparation

Although this plant can grow in almost any soil, it is advisable to select an area with neutral soil. It is better to leave a sunny place to sun-loving crops, and partial shade is suitable for mustard, since it does not tolerate heat.

It is good if potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, beets or eggplants grew in the garden before the mustard.

In the fall, we dig up the soil with the addition of 3 kg of humus or compost per square meter of the site. If the soil is acidic, add slaked lime (from 300 to 700 g per 1 m², depending on the degree of acidity), ash or dolomite flour.

Sowing mustard

When the frosts weaken and the temperature rises above -5 ° C, we proceed to sowing seeds. Sowing is carried out in 3 stages so that all summer long you have fresh, and most importantly, tender greens at hand, because the plants planted for the first time subsequently coarse. First, we sow achenes until the end of April, after - until the end of May and in the first decade of August.

For sowing, choose cool days, otherwise the plants will give arrows. We sow achenes in moistened grooves 1 cm deep with 30 cm row spacing. Lightly cover them with soil and pour warm water from a shallow watering can.

When a couple of leaves appear, we thin out the seedlings so that the distance between the plants is 15-20 cm.

Salad mustard care

Taking care of salad mustard when growing seedlings is very simple - they will need the following procedures:

• Regular weeding and loosening of row spacings.
• Watering is moderate, as the soil dries up. We do not allow the soil to dry out, otherwise the greens will not be juicy and tasty.
• Top dressing of mustard after thinning with the help of chicken manure infusion at the rate of 1 part to 15 parts of water. If the seedlings grow slowly, water the soil with an ash solution, insisting for 8 hours a mixture of 100 grams of wood ash and 5 liters of water.

If the plants are overpowered by a cruciferous flea, sprinkle them with ash in the morning and periodically repeat the sprinkling. To prevent plants from being attacked by fleas, it is good to plant lettuce or onions next to the garden bed: their smell scares away insects.

How to remove mustard leaves after growing

As soon as the height of the leaf rosettes reaches 15 cm, we cut them to the very root, or we completely pull the plants out of the ground: they are no longer needed. That is why salad mustard must be sown repeatedly if you want to have greens on the table all summer and autumn.

Growing mustard salad on a windowsill

You can have fresh mustard greens in your diet, rich in vitamins, minerals and other valuable substances, not only in summer and autumn. The rest of the time we can grow it on the windowsill, because the plant is completely unpretentious to the cultivation conditions.

Seed preparation

We purchase the seeds of salad mustard and prepare them for sowing:

• Fill the seed with pink potassium permanganate solutions and let stand for 20 minutes.
• We place the achenes in cheesecloth and regularly moisten them with water until they hatch.

We dry the seeds a little for ease of sowing and proceed to sowing.

Sowing mustard seeds

For growing mustard leaves, store soil or soil from the garden, taken from places where potatoes or tomatoes grew, are suitable. Sow seed as follows:

• We rinse the boxes with a pink solution of potassium permanganate.
• Sprinkle the garden soil with coke fiber and vermicompost, and bake it in the oven. Such procedures are not carried out with store land, this is a finished product.
• We fill the boxes by a third with drainage such as expanded clay or pebbles, the rest with earth.
• We make grooves 0.5 cm deep and sow a change.
• Gently water them - they will be drawn into the ground, cover with plastic and place in a cool place until they germinate.
• After the emergence of seedlings, remove the film and put the boxes on warm windowsills. Plants should not be exposed to direct sunlight.

For the constant production of mustard greens, we repeat the crops every two weeks.

Care for mustard on the windowsill

After the appearance of 2 leaves, we thin out the seedlings, but not much: the leaves of the plants with denser plantings retain their juiciness longer and do not coarse.

Aged mustard leaves

Next, we carry out simple care for mustard leaves:

• Watering... We water and spray the plants regularly, especially in winter, during the heating season.
• Lighting... With a short daylight hours and on cloudy days, we provide illumination with phytolamps or other light sources.
• Temperature... We make sure that the temperature on the windowsill does not exceed 24 degrees, otherwise the mustard will go to the arrow.

There is no need to feed the plants: there are enough nutrients in the soil.

As you can see, leaf mustard, the cultivation of which is possible both in garden and indoor conditions, is capable of producing crops all year round. Even in winter, you can enrich your diet with home-grown spicy herbs, adding it to fresh salads, side dishes, serving with meat and fish.

Mustard - growing on the site and on the windowsill, proper care

Details Category: Growing Plants

The Cabbage family combines many vegetable and herbaceous crops, among them there is a plant with a slightly frightening name - mustard. Having common characteristics, each species, however, has its own distinctive features. Black mustard has the sharpest flavor. Gray (salad) - gives early ripening, fresh, green foliage. White mustard enriches the soil well, prevents the growth of weeds - it is used as a green manure. Without exception, all varieties of this plant are honey plants. Mustard seeds are used to produce a seasoning product - mustard and oil for culinary purposes, mustard plasters for pharmaceutical purposes.

White mustard greens contain: potassium - 0.43%

nitrogen - 0.71%

phosphorus - 0.92%

organic matter - 22%.

White mustard gives a rich harvest of green mass - you can collect up to 400 kg from one hundred square meters of land. This is equivalent to three to four hundred kilograms of manure.

After harvesting, the plants continue their useful work - they turn into a natural environmentally friendly fertilizer - green manure, which enriches the soil with organic substances. Mustard plants store nitrogen slightly less than legumes. But on the other hand, they process inaccessible nutrients into easily digestible ones.

Mustard - phytosanitary

All parts of the mustard plant are saturated with essential oils. This factor affects the health of the soil. The living conditions of worms and microorganisms are improving, while the fertility of pests, on the contrary, decreases. Mustard prevents the development of fungal diseases, inhibits the growth of weeds.

To scare away pests from other crops, mustard is sown between the rows. But you need to reduce the amount of greenery in time so as not to shade the main plants.

Formation and protection of soil with mustard

Mustard green manures protect the soil from erosion due to wind and water, as well as from leaching of nutrients. Instead, they accumulate. In addition, thanks to the rod-shaped roots, the ability to grow deeply (2 - 3 m) into the ground makes it loose, permeable to air, retaining moisture. In winter, the plant retains snow, protects the soil from freezing.

How to grow mustard - siderat

White mustard is grown for forage purposes and for use as fertilizer. It is a favorite of vegetable growers due to its early maturing nature. Even the cold season does not prevent it from germinating soon and producing a large amount of greenery.In spring, mustard seeds germinate at temperatures from + 1 ° C to + 2 ° C, tolerate spring frosts from -4 ° C to -5 ° C. Sometimes it grows well in autumn even at +3 - + 4 ° С. Due to this cold resistance, mustard can be sown in the last days of March and continue until mid-September.

The soil for mustard must be cultivated (well-groomed). The best soils for her are sod-podzolic, enriched with organic additives. It can be grown both in peat plots, only cultivated, and in sandy loam. Saline, acidic waterlogged and clayey heavy soils are contraindicated. In addition, she herself acidifies the earth.

Mustard must be watered vigorously, first at the stage of "pecking" of the seeds, then when buds appear.

The plant is resistant to cold weather. But the highest rate of development in mustard occurs at temperatures ranging from + 29 ° C to + 35 ° C. In this case, the mustard ripens in 37 - 40 days from the moment the sprouts emerge.

How mustard is planted - siderat

Mustard should not be predecessors of plants from the Cabbage family, so as not to get sick with diseases affecting this family.

Before sowing, the soil is loosened 5 cm deep, for example, using a Fokin plane cutter. Mustard seeds are sown in grooves with gaps between rows of 15 cm.One hundred square meters of land will need from 120 g to 150 g of seeds. To sow in bulk, you need from 300 g to 400 g of seeds. Sow in a fan-like motion, rake through the plot, seeding the seeds 2 - 3 cm deep.

Mustard is sown a month before planting the main vegetables. Before planting vegetables, the siderate must be removed. The cut green mass is left in place. If the main culture is in the form of seedlings, then it is planted in the holes. And when the sprouts sprout, then the mustard is removed with a flat cutter and also left on the surface.

The multifunctionality of mustard is manifested when sowing it no later than August 10. Late sowing will protect the soil and plants, but will not produce a large amount of green mass.

Most importantly, remove the mustard before flowering and do not burrow it into the ground. Be sure to leave on site. 2 - 3 crops can be grown per season.

How leaf mustard is grown

For culinary purposes, when preparing sauces and vegetable salad cuts, they use gray mustard. This species has many names: "Indian", "Salad", "Sarepta" and "Russian". Although she "came" from China. The taste of its large and juicy leaves has a pleasant pungency. Mustard mustard - early ripening, pleases with early ripening spring green foliage.

Mustard leaves can grow in areas with different soil acidity, but the optimal soil for it is with a slightly alkaline reaction and neutral acidity. Not necessarily very fertile, if only not with stagnant water (swampy). This crop is sown in a greenhouse in March, on an open area in the first days of April. Another option is to sow for the winter.

In addition to growing in the garden, it makes it possible to compact the greenhouse vegetation. The loosened soil cover is sown with seeds with gaps between rows of 25 cm, 1.5 cm deep. After seeding with a rake, watered. The sprouts will hatch soon. Dense seedlings must be thinned out. Favorable growth is determined by constant watering, but in moderation, and feeding with organic fertilizers.

After 2 - 3 weeks, leaves grow, which can already be cut off. In hot weather, the foliage of salad mustard loses its juiciness, coarsens, the plant itself quickly releases an arrow. The optimum temperature range is +18 - 20 ° C.

How to get black mustard

The famous French black mustard comes from the Mediterranean. It tastes sharper than white and gray. And more melliferous than others. Black mustard is grown in the same way as other species, but it is more capricious in the choice of soil and loves warmth more.

How mustard is grown at home

In order to grow its own greenery at home in the cold winter, mustard seeds are spread on damp gauze, cloth, or cotton pads.They are placed in a warm place without light, when the sprouts sprout, you can put it against the window. The plant substrate must be constantly moisturized. They need a temperature of about + 10 ° C. Plants that have grown to 5 cm in height should be cut for food purposes.

Why mustard is sick

All cruciferous plants from the Cabbage family have the same diseases, as well as pests. Dangerous for them: keels, white rust, leaf beetle, cruciferous fleas. And for greenhouse plants, the enemy is a black leg.

Each type of mustard is good in its own way, but they all bring significant benefits to the garden and the gardener.

Mustard - growing on the site and on the windowsill, proper care

Details Category: Growing Plants

The Cabbage family combines many vegetable and herbaceous crops, among them there is a plant with a slightly frightening name - mustard. Having common characteristics, each species, however, has its own distinctive features. Black mustard has the sharpest flavor. Gray (salad) - gives early ripening, fresh, green foliage. White mustard enriches the soil well, prevents the growth of weeds - it is used as a green manure. Without exception, all varieties of this plant are honey plants. Mustard seeds are used to produce a seasoning product - mustard and oil for culinary purposes, mustard plasters for pharmaceutical purposes.

White mustard greens contain: potassium - 0.43%

nitrogen - 0.71%

phosphorus - 0.92%

organic matter - 22%.

White mustard gives a rich harvest of green mass - you can collect up to 400 kg from one hundred square meters of land. This is equivalent to three to four hundred kilograms of manure.

After harvesting, the plants continue their useful work - they turn into a natural environmentally friendly fertilizer - green manure, which enriches the soil with organic substances. Mustard plants store nitrogen slightly less than legumes. But on the other hand, they process inaccessible nutrients into easily digestible ones.

Mustard - phytosanitary

All parts of the mustard plant are saturated with essential oils. This factor affects the health of the soil. The living conditions of worms and microorganisms are improving, while the fertility of pests, on the contrary, decreases. Mustard prevents the development of fungal diseases, inhibits the growth of weeds.

To scare away pests from other crops, mustard is sown between the rows. But you need to reduce the amount of greenery in time so as not to shade the main plants.

Formation and protection of soil with mustard

Mustard green manures protect the soil from erosion due to wind and water, as well as from leaching of nutrients. Instead, they accumulate. In addition, thanks to the rod-shaped roots, the ability to grow deeply (2 - 3 m) into the ground makes it loose, permeable to air, retaining moisture. In winter, the plant retains snow, protects the soil from freezing.

How to grow mustard - siderat

White mustard is grown for forage purposes and for use as fertilizer. It is a favorite of vegetable growers due to its early maturing nature. Even the cold season does not prevent it from germinating soon and producing a large amount of greenery. In spring, mustard seeds germinate at temperatures from + 1 ° C to + 2 ° C, tolerate spring frosts from -4 ° C to -5 ° C. Sometimes it grows well in autumn even at +3 - + 4 ° С. Due to this cold resistance, mustard can be sown in the last days of March and continue until mid-September.

The soil for mustard must be cultivated (well-groomed). The best soils for her are sod-podzolic, enriched with organic additives. It can be grown both in peat plots, only cultivated, and in sandy loam. Saline, acidic waterlogged and clayey heavy soils are contraindicated. In addition, she herself acidifies the earth.

Mustard must be watered vigorously, first at the stage of "pecking" of the seeds, then when buds appear.

The plant is resistant to cold weather. But the highest rate of development in mustard occurs at temperatures ranging from + 29 ° C to + 35 ° C. In this case, the mustard ripens in 37 - 40 days from the moment the sprouts emerge.

How mustard is planted - siderat

Mustard should not be predecessors of plants from the Cabbage family, so as not to get sick with diseases affecting this family.

Before sowing, the soil is loosened 5 cm deep, for example, using a Fokin plane cutter. Mustard seeds are sown in grooves with gaps between rows of 15 cm.One hundred square meters of land will need from 120 g to 150 g of seeds. To sow in bulk, you need from 300 g to 400 g of seeds. Sow in a fan-like motion, rake through the plot, seeding the seeds 2 - 3 cm deep.

Mustard is sown a month before planting the main vegetables. Before planting vegetables, the siderate must be removed. The cut green mass is left in place. If the main culture is in the form of seedlings, then it is planted in the holes. And when the sprouts sprout, then the mustard is removed with a flat cutter and also left on the surface.

The multifunctionality of mustard is manifested when sowing it no later than August 10. Late sowing will protect the soil and plants, but will not produce a large amount of green mass.

Most importantly, remove the mustard before flowering and do not burrow it into the ground. Be sure to leave on site. 2 - 3 crops can be grown per season.

How leaf mustard is grown

For culinary purposes, when preparing sauces and vegetable salad cuts, they use gray mustard. This species has many names: "Indian", "Salad", "Sarepta" and "Russian". Although she "came" from China. The taste of its large and juicy leaves has a pleasant pungency. Mustard mustard - early ripening, pleases with early ripening spring green foliage.

Mustard leaves can grow in areas with different soil acidity, but the optimal soil for it is with a slightly alkaline reaction and neutral acidity. Not necessarily very fertile, if only not with stagnant water (swampy). This crop is sown in a greenhouse in March, on an open area in the first days of April. Another option is to sow for the winter.

In addition to growing in the garden, it makes it possible to compact the greenhouse vegetation. The loosened soil cover is sown with seeds with gaps between rows of 25 cm, 1.5 cm deep. After seeding with a rake, watered. The sprouts will hatch soon. Dense seedlings must be thinned out. Favorable growth is determined by constant watering, but in moderation, and feeding with organic fertilizers.

After 2 - 3 weeks, leaves grow, which can already be cut off. In hot weather, the foliage of salad mustard loses its juiciness, coarsens, the plant itself quickly releases an arrow. The optimum temperature range is +18 - 20 ° C.

How to get black mustard

The famous French black mustard comes from the Mediterranean. It tastes sharper than white and gray. And more melliferous than others. Black mustard is grown in the same way as other species, but it is more capricious in the choice of soil and loves warmth more.

How mustard is grown at home

In order to grow its own greenery at home in the cold winter, mustard seeds are spread on damp gauze, cloth, or cotton pads. They are placed in a warm place without light, when the sprouts sprout, you can put it against the window. The plant substrate must be constantly moisturized. They need a temperature of about + 10 ° C. Plants that have grown to 5 cm in height should be cut for food purposes.

Why mustard is sick

All cruciferous plants from the Cabbage family have the same diseases, as well as pests. Dangerous for them: keels, white rust, leaf beetle, cruciferous fleas. And for greenhouse plants, the enemy is a black leg.

Each type of mustard is good in its own way, but they all bring significant benefits to the garden and the gardener.

On the market and store counters, and therefore on our tables, there are more and more healthy products: vegetables, fruits, herbs.

Increasingly, herbs such as basil, arugula or salad mustard are becoming available, the cultivation of which is possible on your own in your garden. It is so unpretentious to care for that it can grow without good lighting in almost any land - both in the open field and on the windowsill.

Mustard leaf: growing in the open field

Soil preparation

Although this plant can grow in almost any soil, it is advisable to select an area with neutral soil. It is better to leave a sunny place to sun-loving crops, and partial shade is suitable for mustard, since it does not tolerate heat.

It is good if potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, beets or eggplants grew in the garden before the mustard.

In the fall, we dig up the soil with the addition of 3 kg of humus or compost per square meter of the site. If the soil is acidic, add slaked lime (from 300 to 700 g per 1 m², depending on the degree of acidity), ash or dolomite flour.

Sowing mustard

When the frosts weaken and the temperature rises above -5 ° C, we proceed to sowing seeds. Sowing is carried out in 3 stages so that all summer long you have fresh, and most importantly, tender greens at hand, because the plants planted for the first time subsequently coarse. First, we sow achenes until the end of April, after - until the end of May and in the first decade of August.

For sowing, choose cool days, otherwise the plants will give arrows. We sow achenes in moistened grooves 1 cm deep with 30 cm row spacing. Lightly cover them with soil and pour warm water from a shallow watering can.

When a couple of leaves appear, we thin out the seedlings so that the distance between the plants is 15-20 cm.

Salad mustard care

Taking care of salad mustard when growing seedlings is very simple - they will need the following procedures:

• Regular weeding and loosening of row spacings.
• Watering is moderate, as the soil dries up. We do not allow the soil to dry out, otherwise the greens will not be juicy and tasty.
• Top dressing of mustard after thinning with the help of chicken manure infusion at the rate of 1 part to 15 parts of water. If the seedlings grow slowly, water the soil with an ash solution, insisting for 8 hours a mixture of 100 grams of wood ash and 5 liters of water.

If the plants are overpowered by a cruciferous flea, sprinkle them with ash in the morning and periodically repeat the sprinkling. To prevent plants from being attacked by fleas, it is good to plant lettuce or onions next to the garden bed: their smell scares away insects.

How to remove mustard leaves after growing

As soon as the height of the leaf rosettes reaches 15 cm, we cut them to the very root, or we completely pull the plants out of the ground: they are no longer needed. That is why salad mustard must be sown repeatedly if you want to have greens on the table all summer and autumn.

Growing mustard salad on a windowsill

You can have fresh mustard greens in your diet, rich in vitamins, minerals and other valuable substances, not only in summer and autumn. The rest of the time we can grow it on the windowsill, because the plant is completely unpretentious to the cultivation conditions.

Seed preparation

We purchase the seeds of salad mustard and prepare them for sowing:

• Fill the seed with pink potassium permanganate solutions and let stand for 20 minutes.
• We place the achenes in cheesecloth and regularly moisten them with water until they hatch.

We dry the seeds a little for ease of sowing and proceed to sowing.

Sowing mustard seeds

For growing mustard leaves, store soil or soil from the garden, taken from places where potatoes or tomatoes grew, are suitable. Sow seed as follows:

• We rinse the boxes with a pink solution of potassium permanganate.
• Sprinkle the garden soil with coke fiber and vermicompost, and bake it in the oven. Such procedures are not carried out with store land, this is a finished product.
• We fill the boxes by a third with drainage such as expanded clay or pebbles, the rest with earth.
• We make grooves 0.5 cm deep and sow a change.
• Gently water them - they will be drawn into the ground, cover with plastic and place in a cool place until they germinate.
• After the emergence of seedlings, remove the film and put the boxes on warm windowsills. Plants should not be exposed to direct sunlight.

For the constant production of mustard greens, we repeat the crops every two weeks.

Care for mustard on the windowsill

After the appearance of 2 leaves, we thin out the seedlings, but not much: the leaves of the plants with denser plantings retain their juiciness longer and do not coarse.

Aged mustard leaves

Next, we carry out simple care for mustard leaves:

• Watering... We water and spray the plants regularly, especially in winter, during the heating season.
• Lighting... With a short daylight hours and on cloudy days, we provide illumination with phytolamps or other light sources.
• Temperature... We make sure that the temperature on the windowsill does not exceed 24 degrees, otherwise the mustard will go to the arrow.

There is no need to feed the plants: there are enough nutrients in the soil.

As you can see, leaf mustard, the cultivation of which is possible both in garden and indoor conditions, is capable of producing crops all year round. Even in winter, you can enrich your diet with home-grown spicy herbs, adding it to fresh salads, side dishes, serving with meat and fish.

Most people associate mustard with a spicy seasoning for various dishes. However, this plant has many varieties that are used for different purposes. Therefore, for a start, it is worth deciding for what purpose you will grow mustard. If you need mustard as an early green, grow salad or dove. White is suitable as a siderat. Black mustard is prized for its pungent and spicy taste. Consider the simplest option for growing lettuce (leaf) mustard right on your windowsill.

Preparing the soil. The best option for mustard is a mixture of vermicompost and coconut fiber. Calculation 1: 2, respectively;

You can plant mustard immediately in a large container or in a small container, followed by transplanting. Plastic or peat cups should be used as a temporary "home" for mustard. At the bottom of the container we lay drainage - a layer of expanded clay, 2-3 centimeters thick.

We put mustard seeds in the soil no deeper than 1.5 centimeters, having previously moistened the ground well. It is advisable to cover the pot with cellophane before the first shoots appear. They usually appear 3-5 days after disembarkation. As soon as 3-4 mustard leaves appear, we transplant it into a permanent container.

The mustard should be watered regularly and abundantly, since drying out accelerates the process of shooting the plant. The first edible greens can be cut off after 2-3 weeks.

It is also possible to grow mustard "for salad" outdoors, since the plant is cold-resistant. You can start planting the plant in April, and if under the film - then in March. Seeds are laid in shallow beds (1-1.5 centimeters), well watered. Excessive seedling density should not be allowed. To do this, the mustard is thinned out, leaving the seedlings at a distance of 10-15 centimeters from each other. Collect greens in 2-3 weeks.

It should be remembered that it is best to grow salad mustard in spring, at the end of summer or in autumn, when the air temperature is not too high, otherwise the mustard goes into the arrow and its leaves become coarse. But mustard tolerates frosts well. The plant will survive even when the temperature drops to -5.

Acquaintance with the culture

Sarepta or gray (Russian) salad mustard comes from the Mediterranean. It is rich in carotene, ascorbic acid, vitamins B1, B2, PP, calcium, iron, phosphorus and magnesium salts. The seeds contain up to 35% fatty oils. They are used as a pain reliever for superficial skin injuries, tumors, burns.

Seeds of Russian (Sarepta) mustard are used for the production of powder, from which the familiar mustard is made. Also, these seeds are used in medicine for the production of mustard plasters. But few people take into account the fact that mustard leaf itself is one of the richest plants in taste. The leaves of this salad plant are very tender and juicy.

Wide use mustard leaf has in China, where a large number of varieties and forms of this plant are bred and grown. People in China use salad mustard in all possible forms - salted, boiled and canned young stems.

Mustard got its name for its slightly spicy taste, reminiscent of table mustard, made from the seeds of white and black mustard. In addition to leaf forms, the root form is known mustard saladforming a round edible root vegetable and a rosette of leaves 20 - 30 cm high.

Growing in an apartment

In indoor gardening, mustard is not very common, but those "indoor gardeners" who decided to plant this plant do not regret it. Mustard is an excellent vitamin aid in the winter. Nutritional value is represented by a rosette of leaves, which emerges 25-35 days after sowing the seeds. Seed cultivation is carried out in a dark place. When seedlings appear, boxes with seedlings are transferred to a bright place.

In order to get a harvest of mustard leaves in the winter, the seeds must be sown from the end of September. Normal soil is suitable for sowing. Pay attention to drainage and sowing depth - it should be 1.5 - 2 cm. As soon as the first shoots appear, they need to be thinned out.

You do not need to feed the plants, but you will have to water abundantly. With a lack or excess of moisture, different types of spotting appear on the leaves. This culture also does not need additional illumination.

Mustard varieties are distinguished by early maturity, taste, and leaf color. Varieties Volnushka, Prelestnaya, Prima, Muravushka - early maturing, with light green leaves, with varying degrees of pungency.

Sorts Mustang, Krasnolistnaya - mid-season, respectively, mild and pungent taste, with a red leaf color. Ladushka is a late-ripening variety of low-pungent taste, with a green leaf.

For growing at home, early and mid-season varieties are recommended.

Natalia Svidovskaya, agronomist