Mibuna has been a great success over winter. A small 40 x 40 cm patch sown in late May has grown to a dense cover and provided as much leaves as I care to pick. And they are delicious. They go well in salads or can take a little cooking. I find the flavour and texture are a good contrast to lettuce in a mixed salad, where it is nice to have leaves from the lettuce, cabbage (the mibuna), endive and chicory families.
In the picture here they are livened up with some nasturtium flowers, this one is ‘Cherry rose’. We had the pair in a salad to go with some grilled salmon.
The mibuna, and to a lesser extent its sibling mizuna, have been so successful that I neglected to plant a further crop during June and July, but I’ve got a couple of much bigger rows sown now and just germinated. If I get a good spring crop it will be more stimulus to try out a Japanese hot pot.