Purple Komatsuna Mustard Seeds

Purple Komatsuna Mustard Seeds
Non-GMO | Open-Pollinated | Purple Japanese Mustard Spinach

The Culinary Edge 🌿💜

Purple Komatsuna Mustard is a striking Japanese mustard-spinach grown for smooth oval leaves, tender violet stems, and a clean brassica flavor that stays more gentle than many sharp mustard greens. Harvest it young for salad mix and colour contrast, or let the plants size up for silky cooking greens that work beautifully in sautés, noodle bowls, soups, and stir-fries.

100+ Seeds per Packet

At A Glance

✨ Flavor Profile

• Mild mustard-spinach character: Komatsuna has the comfort of spinach with a cleaner brassica edge, making it easier to use than hotter mustard greens.
• Tender purple stems: The stems are part of the crop, not waste. Slice them into quick sautés, soups, dumpling fillings, and noodle dishes for colour and gentle crunch.

🍴 Culinary Versatility

• The purple salad green: Pick young leaves for salad mix when you want dark colour without the bitterness of many mature red greens.
• The quick-cook Asian green: Mature leaves wilt quickly with garlic, ginger, sesame oil, miso, soy, or rice vinegar, giving home cooks and chefs a fast side green with real visual presence.
• The bowl and soup finisher: Add sliced leaves and stems near the end of cooking for ramen, udon, rice bowls, brothy beans, or simple vegetable soups.

🌱 Growing Notes

• Growth habit: Upright loose rosettes of smooth oval to spoon-shaped leaves on tender purple stems. Harvest baby leaf, individual outer leaves, or whole young plants.
• Quebec garden timing: Sow in early spring and again in late summer for the best leaf quality. Komatsuna is fast, cold-tolerant, and well suited to raised beds, containers, and succession planting.
• Kitchen-garden value: A practical small-space green: colourful enough for market bunches, mild enough for everyday cooking, and fast enough to earn its place in a chef garden.