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How to sow and grow Asian salad mix
This is a tasty mix of fast-growing oriental greens. Asian salad mix grows just like loose-leaf lettuce and you harvest the leaves when they're still small.
More about our Asian salad mix
Asian salad mix is a fast-growing mix of Asian leafy greens with a lovely spicy, herby flavour.
You grow it as cut-and-come-again lettuce and harvest the leaves while they are still young. You can keep doing that well into autumn.
You grow it as cut-and-come-again lettuce and harvest the leaves while they are still young. You can keep doing that well into autumn.
- Variety: Salade Mix Exotisch
- Family: brassicas
- Number per square: 9
- Height: 15 to 25 cm
- Sowing time: April to August
- Sowing depth: 0.5 to 1 cm
- Germination time: 6 to 10 days at 10 to 20°C
- Time to harvest: from 3 to 6 weeks
- Sunlight: grows in sun or shade
- Packet contents: approx. 300 seeds, for 10+ squares
Note: these seeds have an expiry date of 2027. From then on, germination may slowly decrease, but you can still sow them successfully.
What is Asian salad mix?
Our Asian salad mix includes bok choi, turnip greens, arugola, yellow loose-leaf lettuce, red and green mustard greens, mizuna, and cilantro. Almost all of these varieties - except for cilantro and lettuce - belong to the cabbage family and are cruciferous.
Harvest them young by cutting off the plants just above the soil mix. They'll continue growing so you can get several harvests in.
Great for salads with an extra kick. If you let the plants grow, older leaves are tasty in a stir fry.
Harvest them young by cutting off the plants just above the soil mix. They'll continue growing so you can get several harvests in.
Great for salads with an extra kick. If you let the plants grow, older leaves are tasty in a stir fry.
What do you need to grow Asian salad mix yourself?
Besides the seeds, you need:
- a 30 by 30 cm square
- Makkelijke Moestuin Mix or MM coconut mix
- a spot with 4 to 6 hours of sunlight a day
How to sow and grow Asian salad mix?
This Asian salad mix is included in the free Makkelijke Moestuin app. Use it and you will get guidance from seed to harvest.
Every vegetable goes through several stages, which we call levels.
The app tells you exactly what to do at each level and regularly asks you to check whether your plants are ready to move on to the next one.
So you do not need to know how to grow Asian salad mix successfully before you start.
But if you would like to read ahead, here is what the whole process looks like.
Level 1: Sowing Asian salad mix
Level 1: Sow Asian salad mix
Loosen and moisten the mix in an MM-Mini, or in a square in one of the first two rows of your raised bed. Then sow as follows:
- make 9 holes in the square, no deeper than 1 cm
- put 2 to 3 seeds in each hole
- carefully close the holes
Depending on the weather and the time of year, you will see the first green shoots after 6 to 10 days.
Level 2 and 3: Asian salad mix seedlings
Levels 2 and 3: Asian salad mix seedlings
As soon as you see the first seedlings, you know things are going well. They probably won't all come up at once, but after about 5 days you should see more.
You don't need to thin out the plants in our Asian salad mix. You harvest the leaves when they're still small, so a lot of them can grow close together.
You don't need to thin out the plants in our Asian salad mix. You harvest the leaves when they're still small, so a lot of them can grow close together.
Level 4: Caring for your Asian salad mix plants
Level 4: Care for your Asian salad mix
This level is super easy. After a week or 2 your seedlings will look like real plants. You hardly need to do anything: give them some water and remove the odd dead or yellow leaf. Nice and relaxed 🙂
Level 5: Harvesting
Level 5: Harvest Asian salad mix
This level starts 4 weeks after sowing: the plants are ready for the first harvest.
Cut or pick the individual leaves from the base of the plant. Leave the center of the plants so they can continue growing. They'll produce new leaves that you can harvest for the coming weeks.
If you see any flowering shoots, cut them off. Your plant can then focus on growing new leaves, and they won't get as bitter too quickly.
Cut or pick the individual leaves from the base of the plant. Leave the center of the plants so they can continue growing. They'll produce new leaves that you can harvest for the coming weeks.
If you see any flowering shoots, cut them off. Your plant can then focus on growing new leaves, and they won't get as bitter too quickly.
What do you use Asian salad mix for?
Asian salad mix makes for a delicious, tangy salad.
The older the leaves, the sharper the taste. Cooking evens that out, and the extra kick is great in mashed potatoes or a stir-fry.
The older the leaves, the sharper the taste. Cooking evens that out, and the extra kick is great in mashed potatoes or a stir-fry.
Super healthy leafy greens
All leafy cruciferous plants are packed with vitamins and minerals. For example, 100g of leafy cabbage provides more than 100% of the recommended daily amount of vitamin A. It also contains a lot of vitamin C and the minerals calcium, iron, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium.
Cruciferous plants help prevent inflammation and heart problems. And on top of that, they contain hardly any calories.
Cruciferous plants help prevent inflammation and heart problems. And on top of that, they contain hardly any calories.
The last levels
The next levels
For the last level, continue to harvest the Asian salad mix as long as it tastes good to you. It goes from delicious to nice, to okay, and then to not really edible. It's up to you how long you want to harvest.
A few varieties in this salad mix are resistant to cold - like red mustard. If you leave those plants in the winter, they will grow into huge plants. Nice for stir frying.
At the last level, empty the Asian salad mix from your patch and get ready for the next round of sowing.
A few varieties in this salad mix are resistant to cold - like red mustard. If you leave those plants in the winter, they will grow into huge plants. Nice for stir frying.
At the last level, empty the Asian salad mix from your patch and get ready for the next round of sowing.
So: how about sowing and growing Asian salad mix yourself?
It's tasty and easy to grow. You get a lot of delicious salads from a super small area.
Plus: our materials and app make it practically impossible to fail 🙂
You can order Asian salad mix seed bags or get started with a complete starter kit:
Plus: our materials and app make it practically impossible to fail 🙂
You can order Asian salad mix seed bags or get started with a complete starter kit:
Enjoy!
