Komatsuna, also known as ‘mustard spinach’ or (more technically) Brassica rapa var. perviridis, is one of the new seeds I got in my recent order with the Real Seed Company. It should produce edible greens that can be grown across a long season and eaten either when small or left to put on some size. The other seeds I bought either need a few more weeks before sowing or a few more days until I’ve finished using my heated propagation set up to get tomatoes going but I was able to sow a couple of rows of Komatsuna in the polytunnel this lunchtime and I’ll probably try it at the allotment soon as well.

If I like it, I’ll let some go to seed – one of the benefits of the Real Seed Company is that they breed their source plants to produce viable seed and encourage you to save it and use it yourself (nothing like the F1 hybrids that won’t produce reliable offspring or the ones that are even labelled as illegal to propagate). Hurrah!