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- All seeds
- Makkelijke Moestuin sowing calendar
- Are our seeds organic?
- What are Salanovas?
- What does F1 mean?
- African Marigold: sowing and growing
- Asian salad mix: sowing and growing
- Endive: sowing and growing
- Baby broccoli
- Bush tomato
- Bush basil: sowing and growing
- Beetroot: sowing and growing
- Lente-ui
- Chinese bieslook
- Chioggia beetroot: sowing and growing
- Bindsla
- Boterboon
- Climbing courgette
- Dropplant
- Yellomato: sowing and growing
- Goudsbloem
- Komkommer
- Cilantro: sowing and growing
- Bibb lettuce: sowing and growing
- NZ spinach: sowing and growing
- OI-kers
- Paksoi
- Palmkool
- Peultjes
- Red Crispy lettuce
- Baby pompoen
- Reuzen radijs
- Arugola: sowing and growing
- Snijbiet
- Snijboon
- Bacon bean: sowing and growing
- Spinach
- Stamboon
- Stengelsla
- Sugarsnap
- Veldsla
- Wintererwt
- Winterpostelein
- Wortel
- Paarse wortel
- Zonnebloem
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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.
Vitamines en mineralen in paksoi
Paksoi zit vol vitamines en mineralen. In 100 gram paksoi zit bijvoorbeeld al meer dan 100 procent van de aanbevolen dagelijkse hoeveelheid vitamine A. Verder zit er veel vitamine C en de mineralen calcium, ijzer, mangaan, fosfor, kalium en magnesium in.
Allemaal goed voor je gezondheid. En omdat er nauwelijks calorieen inzitten is paksoi ook nog eens goed voor de lijn 😀
More about our bok choi
This bok choi grows quickly and easily. It has a mild flavour and is delicious in stir-fries. You can sow this variety in spring and again in late summer.
- Variety name: Bak choi green F1
- Family: brassicas
- Plants per square: 4
- Height: 15 to 25 cm
- Sowing time: mid-March to May and July to August
- Sowing depth: 0.5 to 1 cm
- Germination: 5 to 14 days at 12 to 25 degrees C
- Time to harvest: from about 6 weeks
- Position: sun or partial shade
- Packet contents: about 100 seeds, enough for more than 15 squares
Bij sommige soorten zie je de vermelding F1 staan. Dat betekent dat het zogenaamde hybride zaden zijn: van een doorgekweekte soort plant.
Een andere naam voor dat doorkweken is veredeling. Zadentelers doen dat om bepaalde eigenschappen van een soort te versterken of juist af te zwakken. Dan moet je denken aan een betere prestatie bij warmer, kouder, droger of juist natter weer. Of aan een gelijkmatiger uiterlijk, een grotere opbrengst per plant of een betere smaak.
Door eindeloos kruisen en selecteren van rassen, versterken de telers de in hun ogen positieve eigenschappen en halen ze de negatieve eigenschappen zoveel mogelijk weg. Zo worden ze vaak ook beter bestand tegen bepaalde ziektes.
Veredelde soorten zijn dus echt niet eng of onnatuurlijk. Telers die uitsluitend biologisch werken ontwikkelen ze ook.
Meer info over F1 zaden vind je hier: Wat betekent F1 op de zaden van de MM?
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:
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.
Level 1: Sowing bok choi
Level 1: Paksoi zaaien
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
Level 2: Paksoi zaailingen
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
Level 3: Paksoi zaailingen uitdunnen
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
Level 4: Verzorging van je paksoi plantjes
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
Level 5: Oogsten van paksoi
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
De laatste 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
- All seeds
- Makkelijke Moestuin sowing calendar
- Are our seeds organic?
- What are Salanovas?
- What does F1 mean?
- African Marigold: sowing and growing
- Asian salad mix: sowing and growing
- Endive: sowing and growing
- Baby broccoli
- Bush tomato
- Bush basil: sowing and growing
- Beetroot: sowing and growing
- Lente-ui
- Chinese bieslook
- Chioggia beetroot: sowing and growing
- Bindsla
- Boterboon
- Climbing courgette
- Dropplant
- Yellomato: sowing and growing
- Goudsbloem
- Komkommer
- Cilantro: sowing and growing
- Bibb lettuce: sowing and growing
- NZ spinach: sowing and growing
- OI-kers
- Paksoi
- Palmkool
- Peultjes
- Red Crispy lettuce
- Baby pompoen
- Reuzen radijs
- Arugola: sowing and growing
- Snijbiet
- Snijboon
- Bacon bean: sowing and growing
- Spinach
- Stamboon
- Stengelsla
- Sugarsnap
- Veldsla
- Wintererwt
- Winterpostelein
- Wortel
- Paarse wortel
- Zonnebloem