The Makkelijke Moestuin in 3 minutes

The Makkelijke Moestuin in 3 minutes

Here you'll read how, with our system, you can harvest up to 5x more than from a regular vegetable garden. On just a few square meters, all natural, pesticide-free, and with almost no work.

The full Makkelijke Moestuin guide

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Makkelijke Moestuin vs traditional vegetable garden

1. Makkelijke Moestuin vs traditional vegetable garden

Giving each plant enough light, air, water, space, nutrients, and attention is pretty tricky. Not in a Makkelijke Moestuin: there, it happens all by itself.

 About us

2. About us

Why Jelle started Makkelijke Moestuin, how it grew into a movement, and why we work differently from most companies.

 The garden box

3. The garden box

The garden box is the heart of the Makkelijke Moestuin system. Its smart setup gives your plants almost everything they need from the start.

 The soil mix

4. The soil mix

In the Makkelijke Moestuin, you don’t use your own soil but a special veggie garden mix. All your plants do well in that mix.

 The water reservoir

5. The water reservoir

Why a smart water reservoir helps your plants grow better while saving you time and effort: how it works, and how and when to water.

6. Het zaaisysteem

In een Makkelijke Moestuin zaai je niet in rijtjes, maar in vierkante vakken van 30x30 cm. Meteen op de juiste plek en met de juiste afstand van elkaar.
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Asian salad mix

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Description

Asian salad mix is an easy, fast-growing mix of Asian leafy greens. Grow it as cut-and-come-again lettuce and harvest the leaves while they are still young.

Specifications

Sowing time: April to August
Height: 15-25 cm
Contents: approx. 300 seeds, for 10+ squares

In the app

Sowing: 1 April - 31 August

Level 1

seeds are sown

Level 2

first seedlings

Level 3

seedlings

Level 4

little plants

Level 5

first harvest

Level 6

continual harvesting

Level 7

big plants

Level 8

plants are (too) old

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  • The app helps you with almost everything you do in your vegetable garden: sowing, tending, and harvesting.
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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.

  • 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 do you need to grow Asian salad mix yourself?

Besides the seeds, you need:
Sowing Asian salad mix in Makkelijke Moestuin Mix
Sowing Asian salad mix seeds

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:
  1. make 9 holes in the square, no deeper than 1 cm
  2. put 2 to 3 seeds in each hole
  3. 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.
Sow Asian salad mix in 9 spots in one Makkelijke Moestuin square

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.
No need to thin out seedlings in the Asian salad mix
No need to thin out these seedlings

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 🙂
Young Asian salad mix plants in a Makkelijke Moestuin
Taking care of the small plants is easy

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.
Asian salad mix leafy greens ready to harvest
Asian salad mix ready to harvest

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.

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.
Asian salad mix greens are incredibly healthy
Greens in the Asian salad mix are incredibly healthy

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.
Red mustard from an Asian salad mix in a Makkelijke Moestuin
Overgrown mustard greens

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:
Complete starter kit
Enjoy!