PlantSowGrowHow to grow Mizuna
Brassica rapa var. nipposinica
🥕 Vegetable
🌱 Grown each year
Feathery, mild mustard leaves that regrow after cutting — lovely in salads and stir-fries. Hardy enough for autumn and winter salads.
At a glance: Sow early April to mid September, harvest from late April.
When to sow, plant and harvest
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Sow outdoors
Harvest
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Mizuna: what it needs
- Light
- Part shade · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water regularly in dry weather
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 15 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- A general feed before sowing or planting
- Harvest
- About 30 days from sowing
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 3–9
- Difficulty
- Easy
Step by step
- Early April – mid September · 2 weeks before the last spring frost
Sow Seeds Outdoors
Sow thinly in drills where they are to grow.
- 3–7 days after “Sow Seeds Indoors” · Early April
Check Germination
Seedlings should appear in 3–7 days. If sown outdoors, thin to 15 cm apart when big enough to handle.
- 23–44 days after “Check Germination” · Late April – mid May
Start Harvesting
Cut leaves 3 cm above the base; they regrow several times.
- 14–28 days after “Start Harvesting” · Mid May – late May
Sow Another Batch (optional)
Sow a short row every 3 weeks.
- 60–90 days after “Sow Another Batch” · Early July – early August
Finish and Clear
Clear the remains to the compost heap once cropping ends.
