Mizuna seeds

The mizuna is a vegetable plant from the cabbage and mustard family (the Cruciferous or Brassicaceae family), widely used in mesclun salads. This Japanese salad cabbage is a unique and tasty leaf vegetable, with a slightly peppery flavour. Its young shoots are consumed raw in salads, while the older leaves are cooked like spinach, used in dishes to accompany pasta, to enhance the flavour of stews, and in Asian cuisine. Like many cabbage-related plants, mizuna is rich in antioxidants (vitamins A and C) and calcium. It is a hardy and vigorous biennial or annual plant, with seeds sown under a heated shelter from February to May or directly in the ground from April to August. Harvesting begins 6 weeks after sowing.