Namenia (turnip greens)
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.
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Cultivation
Seed germination temperature: 15-17 °CPlanting distance: direct sowing 15-25 x 1-2 cm planting ca. 20 x 15 cm
increasingly from

Maatschap Nieuw Bonaventura / Mieke, Leen-Jan und Niels Reedijk
The biodynamic farm Maatschap-Niuew Bonaventura is located in the south-west of the Netherlands, 1.60 metres below sea level and is characterised by a maritime climate.


Maatschap Westers Bio-Akkerbouw
The Demeter farm Maatschap Westers Bio-Akkerbouw in northern Netherlands manages its land using ploughless soil tillage and vegan farming methods to propagate organic seeds.
