Tag: Brassica Juncea

What are good beginner crops for seed saving on your farm?

March 27, 2022

What are good beginner crops for seed saving on your farm? Choose crops that won’t easily cross with each other.  This definitely means crops that mostly self pollinate (selfers).  But you can also save seed from crops that mostly cross pollinate (crossers) as long as you only have one variety of a species in flower. … More What are good beginner crops for seed saving on your farm?

Brassica juncea – another crosser for your seed plan

May 11, 2021

Mustard greens are an easy choice for #seedsavingformarketgrowers Mustard greens are in the Brassica juncea species. I’ve heard that there is a whole world of Brassica juncea diversity out there including heading mustards and turnip root mustards and swollen stem mustards. I can’t vouch for those. But what I do know is that there is … More Brassica juncea – another crosser for your seed plan