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Minutina Seeds,AKA, Buck-horn’s Plaintain,Erba Stella.A cold-hardy salad plant for fall, winter, spring, and summer. Untreated seed !

Original price €3,95 - Original price €79,95
Original price
€3,95
€3,95 - €79,95
Current price €3,95
Size: Packet- 500 Seeds

You can look up your climate zone here: http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/ Minutina
Especially for winter salads.

Italian Buckshorn, Plantain, Minutina,Great cool weather green, Erba Stella is rich in vitamins A and C and minerals, very adaptable to any soil, provided that they are kept sufficiently moist. Lends a crunchy texture and mild flavor to any salad. Although a native of sandy/rocky/alkaline coastal areas, this is a very adaptable and easy to grow plant. Untreated seed..

A cold-hardy salad plant for fall, winter, spring, and summer production. Small plants with rosettes of slender green leaves. Adds a crunchy texture to salads without fiber. Flower buds are edible. Re-grows after cutting, but succession sow for best quality and appearance. Sow about 30 seeds/ft., covering 1/4" or sow in plugs and transplant; thin to 4-6" apart if desired. A sweet grass lettuce resembling a narrow mizuna, Erba Stella develops into a small plant with a delicate rosette of slender green leaves. It is lovely as an addition to other greens like Rustic Arugula and Miner’s Lettuce in salads. Harvest young and tender when it is about 5” long. (OP.) Also know as Buck-horn’s Plaintain, Erba Stella is a unique, cold weather salad green prized in Italy for its mild nutty flavor and crunchy texture.

Sow directly outside in early spring as soon as the ground can be worked or in the fall. It can tolerate moderate frosts and be grown all winter in temperate climates.

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