How To Grow Asian Greens?

Most of the Asian greens are good to use in stir-fries or for use in salads. They are sow in mid-summer through first part of fall. You can used beds, containers, and growing bags. You  should plant five plants  in each growing bag and you will need to plant fifteen to twenty plants in each nine feet rows.

Four Varieties Of Asian Greens
1. Boy Choy - this one is good in salads or you can cooked them also.

2. Red Giant - this one are red-flushed and it has a mild pepper flavor. Good used in your salads.

3. Spinach Mustard - this one is good to be cut young and the leaves used in salads.

4. Mizuna - this one will look attractive in salads or a garnish.

1. Getting StartedIt is very important that you do not sow Asian greens real early in the year because they can not  take the cold temperatures and when the days start to be longer, the plants are very prone to bolting., if you wait until midsummer, it will discourage the plants  from bolting,. During the summer, high temperatures and no rain will cause these plants to bolt. Bolting is when the plant quickly turns to seeds.

2. Sow Inside

Starting from midsummer on and at routine intervals, you will need to fill your trays with seed compost, and water thoroughly and you need to let the water drain. Sow the seeds and cover them with compost to a depth of 1/2 inch, and firm the soil with the back of a rake. The seeds does not need any extra  heat and will germinate in about a week. When they are large enough, then you will need to transplant outside.

3. Sowing Outside
The oriental greens does real well if they are sown directly. Dig the garden site up good, remove all weeds, and add high-nitrogen feed  to your soil. Rake the soil level, and then begin to mark out 1/2 inch deep drills six to twelve inches apart, depending on which crop you are growing.

4. Planting Out

First of all, prepare your soil well, and get all of weeds remove, and put high-nitrogen fertilizer. After your indoor-grown seedlings are ready to go outside, you will need to place them outside, you will need to place  them outdoors during the day and bring them indoors at night for two weeks.

5. Routine Care
They are prone to be bother with brassica pests, which are flea beetle and cabbage root fly. To keep these pests from the plants, you will need to cover them with a fine insect-proof mesh. You will need to keep the plants weed-free and water them frequently to encourage quick growth of your Asian greens.

6. Pick Young Leaves

When the leaves are large enough to eat, you can either snip  individual leaves, or you can cut back the whole plant. Since the Asian greens grow so quickly in the summer, you will need to sow seeds every two weeks which will give you many harvests throughout the summer instead of one big crop of Asian greens.

7. Harvesting
Sometime you will need to allow the plants to grow to its full size, occasionally thinning the seedlings or transplants out as the season goes. You can cut the head as a whole, or you can pick the individual shoots as they appear.