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Need some advice please  :D
I'm wanting to grow mustard this summer, the yellow flowering one that you see in fields everywhere. It's lovely, home grown and makes a fab curry!
Do I grow this from the brown mustard seed you can buy in shops?
Has anyone any experience of growing, if so any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks - CF
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QuoteDo I grow this from the brown mustard seed you can buy in shops?

yes.
I grow mine as green manure only but it is the same stuff.

thanks blight, so when do i plant the seeds?  ???

when you don´t expect any more frost. established plants can stand a few degrees of frost but seedlings probably not. as they grow so fast, you could try to sow a few seeds  every fortnight or so till september to have a steady supply.

Thought the yellow flowering thing you see in the fields everywhere was oil-seed rape, Brassica napus napus ? (gives me severe hayfever!)

I think true mustard is Brassica juncea (brown mustard) and Brassica hirta (white mustard) but I may be wrong!

mine is called sinapis alba.
commercial mustard is made up from sinapis alba and brassica nigra.
sinapis alba is grown on a vast scale as a green ferilizer after wheat, barley etc. in my parts. so is rape (brassica napus) for its seed (oil)

Wowee roll on spring, i can't wait to grow my own mustard. Its brown coloured seeds and i have a jar full  ;D

Be aware that getting the seed out of the pods is rather longwinded ... :D

Eh, seeds out of pod  ???
Am confused now, didn't know they has a pod?  :-\
So .... how do you get em out or are you having me on?

::)

Brassicas do have seed pods, but I've never tried getting the seeds out of them.

I am not kidding you CardinalFlower, I sowed some mustard once to get a crop, and didnt realise that the seeds were in pods. I gave up in the end, but I wish you more luck!

I get the seeds stuck in my teeth.......hmm I'll scatter them then. Ta!