Purple Komatsuna brings distinctive flavour, colour, and texture to the kitchen garden. Harvest young for tender leaves and full size for deeper character, using it raw, quickly cooked, or preserved depending on the harvest stage.
CULINARY VEGETABLE · 2027 VARIETY
Purple Komatsuna Seeds
Purple Komatsuna brings distinctive flavour, colour, and texture to the kitchen garden. Harvest young for tender leaves and full size for deeper character, using it raw, quickly cooked, or preserved depending on the harvest stage.
In The Kitchen
Pair with bright acids, toasted sesame, olive oil, garlic, ginger, beans, noodles, rice, eggs, and roasted meats. Young leaves are excellent raw; mature leaves take well to a quick sauté, braise, or soup.
Growing Notes
- Sow in fertile, evenly moist soil during cool spring or fall weather.
- Succession sow for a continuous harvest.
- Harvest outer leaves repeatedly or cut whole plants young.
- Provide afternoon shade as temperatures rise.
Packet: 50+ seeds.
Cook your harvest
Use your harvest in these recipes. Check the variety notes and substitutions in each recipe.
Follow the growing notes in the description and on your seed packet. Sowing time, temperature and harvest stage depend on the variety.
See the description for this variety’s kitchen uses and the harvest stage that suits your recipe.
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