- Seeds of the MM Garden
- Planty Sowing Calendar
- Are our seeds organic?
- What does F1 mean on the seeds of Planty Gardening?
- African marigold - sowing and growing
- Asian salad mix - sowing and growing
- Endive - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Bush tomato - sowing and growing
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Beet - sowing and growing
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Chioggia beet - sowing and growing
- Cos lettuce - sowing and growing
- Butter beans - sowing and growing
- Climbing zucchini - sowing and growing
- Liquorice mint - sowing and growing
- Yellomato - sowing and growing
- Marigold - sowing and growing
- Cucumber - sowing and growing
- Cilantro - sowing and growing
- Bibb lettuce - sowing and growing
- NZ spinach - sowing and growing
- Indian cress - sowing and growing
- Bok choi - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Snow pea - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Baby pumpkin - sowing and growing
- Radish - sowing and growing
- Arugola - sowing and growing
- Chard - sowing and growing
- Romano pole bean - sowing and growing
- Bacon bean - sowing and growing
- Spinach
- Bush bean - sowing and growing
- Stem lettuce - sowing and growing
- Sugar snap - sowing and growing
- Lamb's lettuce - sowing and growing
- Winter pea - sowing and growing
- Winter purslane - sowing and growing
- Winter lettuce - sowing and growing
- Carrot - sowing and growing
- Purple carrot - sowing and growing
- Sunflower - sowing and growing
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- Seeds of the MM Garden
- Planty Sowing Calendar
- Are our seeds organic?
- What does F1 mean on the seeds of Planty Gardening?
- African marigold - sowing and growing
- Asian salad mix - sowing and growing
- Endive - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Bush tomato - sowing and growing
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Beet - sowing and growing
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Chioggia beet - sowing and growing
- Cos lettuce - sowing and growing
- Butter beans - sowing and growing
- Climbing zucchini - sowing and growing
- Liquorice mint - sowing and growing
- Yellomato - sowing and growing
- Marigold - sowing and growing
- Cucumber - sowing and growing
- Cilantro - sowing and growing
- Bibb lettuce - sowing and growing
- NZ spinach - sowing and growing
- Indian cress - sowing and growing
- Bok choi - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Snow pea - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Baby pumpkin - sowing and growing
- Radish - sowing and growing
- Arugola - sowing and growing
- Chard - sowing and growing
- Romano pole bean - sowing and growing
- Bacon bean - sowing and growing
- Spinach
- Bush bean - sowing and growing
- Stem lettuce - sowing and growing
- Sugar snap - sowing and growing
- Lamb's lettuce - sowing and growing
- Winter pea - sowing and growing
- Winter purslane - sowing and growing
- Winter lettuce - sowing and growing
- Carrot - sowing and growing
- Purple carrot - sowing and growing
- Sunflower - sowing and growing
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How to sow and grow bok choi
Bok choi comes in several different varieties. Ours can be sown in both spring and summer. It grows quickly, is delicious, and has a beautiful bright green color.
What is bok choi?
Bok choi, or pak choi, is a fast-growing Chinese cabbage in the cruciferous family. The mild flavor and the crunch of the stems are a real treat.
Bok choi is very popular in Eastern countries.
It's especially good cooked in a stir fry. The young leaves and stems are also delicious raw in salads.
We chose a bok choi variety that you can sow 2x in 1 season: spring and summer. Sometimes bok choi blooms in early summer.
Bok choi is very popular in Eastern countries.
It's especially good cooked in a stir fry. The young leaves and stems are also delicious raw in salads.
We chose a bok choi variety that you can sow 2x in 1 season: spring and summer. Sometimes bok choi blooms in early summer.
Vitamins and minerals in bok choi
Bok choi is full of vitamins and minerals. 100 grams of bok choi contains 100% of the recommended daily amount of vitamin A. There's also a lot of vitamin C and minerals: calcium, iron, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium.
So, it's really good for your health. And you don't have to count calories because bok choi has none 😀
So, it's really good for your health. And you don't have to count calories because bok choi has none 😀
More about our bok choi seeds
These compact bok choi plants are ideal for your Planty Garden. Sow in spring or summer - but not too early in summer or your overeager plants will flower quickly.
- Species name: bak choi green F1
- Family: cruciferous
- Plants per square patch: 4
- Height: 15 to 25 cm
- Sowing time: mid-March to May and July to August
- Sowing depth: 0.5 to 1 cm
- Time to harvest: after 6 weeks
- Germination: about 12 - 25°C in 5 - 14 days
- Sunlight: can grow in sun and shade
Our bok choi seed bags are sold separately in the shop or you can get them as part of a seed pack:
What do you need to grow your own bok choi?
Here's everything you need to grow bok choi:
- a 30x30 cm patch with airy, nutrient-rich soil mix
- bok choi seeds
- a place with at least 6-8 hours of sunlight a day
In other words, an MM-Mini, or a square patch in one of our garden boxes, filled with MM-Mix.
Growing your own bok choi in this perfect soil mix is super easy. If you use poor-quality (potting) soil, it's much harder and the results will be disappointing. So just go for the best.
Growing your own bok choi in this perfect soil mix is super easy. If you use poor-quality (potting) soil, it's much harder and the results will be disappointing. So just go for the best.
How to sow and grow bok choi?
Our bok choi is included in the free Planty Gardening app. Use it, and you'll get step-by-step guidance from seed to harvest.
Each vegetable goes through a number of stages - we call them levels. The app tells you exactly what to do at each level and checks in when your plants are ready for the next.
So you don't need to know how to grow bok choi before you start: the app takes you through every step.
But if you'd like to read more about those steps, here's what the process looks like:
Each vegetable goes through a number of stages - we call them levels. The app tells you exactly what to do at each level and checks in when your plants are ready for the next.
So you don't need to know how to grow bok choi before you start: the app takes you through every step.
But if you'd like to read more about those steps, here's what the process looks like:
Level 1: Sowing bok choi
Choose a square patch at the 2nd or 3rd row of your garden box. Loosen up the moist MM-Mix and sow like this:
- poke 4 holes in the patch (no deeper than 1 cm)
- put 2 to 3 seeds in each hole
- carefully cover up the holes with soil mix
After about a week, you'll see something green come up. It depends a bit on the weather.
Level 2: Bok choi 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 give it another week.
Then it's time for the next level.
Then it's time for the next level.
Level 3: Thinning bok choi seedlings
When several seedlings come up in each spot that you sowed, choose the best ones and remove the rest: that's called thinning out. It might sound harsh, but it's necessary. The remaining plants need enough room to grow. You'll be glad you did it.
Here's how: take a pair of scissors, leave the biggest and prettiest seedling per hole, and cut off the others along the soil mix. You'll end up with 4 bok choi plants.
If you see places where nothing came up, sow a few more seeds.
And keep an eye out for snails: they love these seedlings.
Here's how: take a pair of scissors, leave the biggest and prettiest seedling per hole, and cut off the others along the soil mix. You'll end up with 4 bok choi plants.
If you see places where nothing came up, sow a few more seeds.
And keep an eye out for snails: they love these seedlings.
Level 4: Caring for your bok choi plants
After a week or 2, your seedlings will become small plants.
You hardly need to do anything: if the weather's dry, give them some water and remove the odd dead or yellow leaf.
Did you sow in the summer? Then keep an eye out for caterpillars of butterflies. The cabbage white butterflies like to lay eggs on the leaves.
You hardly need to do anything: if the weather's dry, give them some water and remove the odd dead or yellow leaf.
Did you sow in the summer? Then keep an eye out for caterpillars of butterflies. The cabbage white butterflies like to lay eggs on the leaves.
Level 5: Harvesting bok choi
This level starts 7 to 8 weeks after sowing: the plants are ready for the first harvest.
You can harvest just the outer leaves of the bok choi, but it's more common to harvest the whole plant at once.
Harvest the first ones when they are still small and leave the others to grow. You can pick those in the coming weeks.
You can harvest just the outer leaves of the bok choi, but it's more common to harvest the whole plant at once.
Harvest the first ones when they are still small and leave the others to grow. You can pick those in the coming weeks.
How do you use bok choi?
The leaves and stems are delicious. Young plants are great in salads, but bok choi is mostly used in stir fries. The taste goes well with curry and cumin.
But you can also make it the Dutch way in a potato mash: add raw bok choi to potatoes and cheese or bacon 😋
But you can also make it the Dutch way in a potato mash: add raw bok choi to potatoes and cheese or bacon 😋
The last levels
Harvest the last heads in the coming weeks. At the beginning of summer, the plants will start to flower. So be sure to pick them before the bolt.
So: what's stopping you from growing your own bok choi?
It's a tasty and easy vegetable to grow, and they look beautiful in your vegetable garden.
Plus: with our app and materials, it's almost impossible to fail 😉
Buy your bok choi seeds here or get started with a complete starter kit:
Plus: with our app and materials, it's almost impossible to fail 😉
Buy your bok choi seeds here or get started with a complete starter kit:
Enjoy!
About our seeds
- Seeds of the MM Garden
- Planty Sowing Calendar
- Are our seeds organic?
- What does F1 mean on the seeds of Planty Gardening?
- African marigold - sowing and growing
- Asian salad mix - sowing and growing
- Endive - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Bush tomato - sowing and growing
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Beet - sowing and growing
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Chioggia beet - sowing and growing
- Cos lettuce - sowing and growing
- Butter beans - sowing and growing
- Climbing zucchini - sowing and growing
- Liquorice mint - sowing and growing
- Yellomato - sowing and growing
- Marigold - sowing and growing
- Cucumber - sowing and growing
- Cilantro - sowing and growing
- Bibb lettuce - sowing and growing
- NZ spinach - sowing and growing
- Indian cress - sowing and growing
- Bok choi - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Snow pea - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Baby pumpkin - sowing and growing
- Radish - sowing and growing
- Arugola - sowing and growing
- Chard - sowing and growing
- Romano pole bean - sowing and growing
- Bacon bean - sowing and growing
- Spinach
- Bush bean - sowing and growing
- Stem lettuce - sowing and growing
- Sugar snap - sowing and growing
- Lamb's lettuce - sowing and growing
- Winter pea - sowing and growing
- Winter purslane - sowing and growing
- Winter lettuce - sowing and growing
- Carrot - sowing and growing
- Purple carrot - sowing and growing
- Sunflower - sowing and growing