Deep Purple Mustard Seeds

Gourmet Flavor Plus Ornamental Beauty!
The darkest and most flavorful Japanese Red Mustard yet!
Genus: Brassica
Species: x
Variety: Deep Purple
Item Form: (P) Pkt of 400 seeds
Days to Maturity: 45
Fruit Color: Purple
Habit: Mound-shaped
Seeds Per Pack:100
Plant Height: 10 in – 24 in
Plant Width: 12 in
Additional Characteristics: Cool Season, Cut-and-Come-Again, Direct Sow, Easy Care Plants, Edible
Foliage Color: Light Green, Purple
Harvest Season: Early Winter, Late Fall, Late Spring, Mid Fall, Mid Spring
Light Requirements: Full Sun
Moisture Requirements: Moist,  well-drained
Resistance: Cold Hardy
Soil Tolerance: Normal,  loamy
Uses: Beds, Containers, Cuisine, Foliage Interest, Outdoor, Ornamental

45 days (mature) or 25 days (baby greens) from direct-sowing.

Is it a mustard green or a spectacular new variety of Coleus?! Deep Purple is a Japanese Red Mustard with such neatly serrated, compact oval leaves that it looks like an ornamental plant . . . which, of course, it is! Grow this mildy flavored, nutritious green as a baby green for salads or a mature leaf. It’s ready in no time, and who can resist these deep violet leaves on their bright green stems?

Nicely branched and very full, Deep Purple reaches 10 to 24 inches high and about a foot wide. If you are growing it for baby greens, you can begin picking the leaves just 3 weeks from sowing the seeds! If you want to harvest the whole plant at once, it will take a little over a month. And for most of us, who do a little leaf picking and a little plant harvesting, depending on what’s going on in our kitchen, this means a wonderfully versatile source of nutritious fresh greens we can enjoy in spring, fall, and (in mild and warm climates) even into winter!

Deep Purple is far and away the darkest-leafed red mustard we have seen, but the flavor is not correspondingly intense. Instead, it’s got a mildly spicy, mustardy bite, just enough to get your attention and keep your interest. The leaves stay small, which keeps the texture supple and fresh, never brittle. And those neon-bright stems go a long way toward adding plate appeal to even a simple salad or steamed dish!

And of course, Deep Purple is fabulously ornamental. Stick it in all your patio containers in spring, fall, and early winter. It will make the pansies and violas really pop! It even does well in the annual bed, alongside the Snapdragons and other cool-season flowers. And it grows so fast, you can fill those suddenly-empty spots almost overnight!

In warm climates, Deep Purple resists bolting very well, even when hot summer weather arrives suddenly and strongly in spring. It doesn’t mind a bit of frost, either, and of course can be grown all winter in frost-free and light frost areas. This is going to be one of your mainstays for cool-season color!

Sow seed outdoors in early spring or, for fall crops, 6 to 8 weeks before first fall frost. Space seedlings 6 inches apart in rows 16-24 inches apart, and make successive plantings each week or so throughout the season. Flavor and looks this good deserve all the garden space they can get! Pkt is 100 seeds.