Mustard Spinach flowers and immature seed pods |
Large edible leaves - great raw or cooked. Young supple shoot also very edible. Flowers too - buds and blooms. |
Giant Red Mustard Spinach looks great and the taste is as powerful as horseradish. |
Frilly Mustard Spinach has very unusual seed stalks - a curiousity in the garden. |
Mustard Spinach seed pods add good organic matter back into the soil. Growing a crop of mustard greens also helps to get rid of root knot nematodes. |
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