Namenia (Stielmus) is a very productive and good tasting leaf stem vegetable, for cooking or for salad. Dense sowing and early cutting allows for two cuts. Relatively frost-hardy. Repeat harvest possible. Cut from a height of ca. 30 cm. Generally sold in bunches. Mild-spicy cabbage flavour.
Cultivation
Raise in seed bed: for open ground: beginning of February till end of August for planting out from beginning of March till mid of September
for greenhouse: from end of December for planting out from end of January
Sowing depth: 1-2 cmSeed germination temperature: 15-17 °CPlanting distance: direct sowing 15-25 x 1-2 cm
planting ca. 20 x 15 cm
Direct sowing: greenhouse: end of January till March and September open ground: March till beginning of April and mid of August till mid of SeptemberOptimal amount of plants: ca. 250 plants/m²
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