Mustard Yellow Seeds produce Sinapis alba, also called white mustard. This product’s clearest outcome is pale yellow condiment seed for homemade mustard or pickling; tender young leaves are an optional secondary harvest.
Ready to grow Yellow mustard for pale condiment seed, with tender young leaves as a bonus? Follow our step-by-step Mustard Yellow Grow Guide for sowing, germination and care advice.
Quick Grow Facts
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Plant Type: Cool-season annual condiment mustard
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Scientific Name: Sinapis alba (yellow or white mustard)
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Seed Form: Raw seed; this describes the format and does not prove that a lot is untreated
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General Sowing Time: Use the regional leaf or seed window in the linked guide; the current packet states spring/autumn
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Position: Full sun
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Sow Depth: 1.5 cm, as stated on the current packet
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Spacing: Young leaves 2–3 cm in rows 15–20 cm apart; seed crop 15 cm × 30–45 cm
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Germination: 7–14 days; aim for about 13–20°C soil
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Harvest: Young leaves about 25–35 days; begin checking mature pale seed around the packet’s 90–100-day estimate
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Height: The current supplier copy states 30–80 cm; seed plants can approach about 1 m depending on conditions
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Seed Quantity - 5g raw seed: Approx 725 seeds
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Seed Quantity - 100g raw seed: Approx 14 500 seeds
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Seed Quantity - 1kg raw seed: Approx 145 000 seeds
Why Grow This Species
- Pale seed is suited to table mustard, dry mustard and pickling.
- Young leaves add a milder peppery note than mature Black mustard.
- Yellow mustard is relatively tolerant of dry conditions once established.
- The seed outcome is kept separate from Red Giant’s baby-leaf and mature-greens role.
Growing Notes
- Direct-sow 1.5 cm deep and thin to the spacing for the chosen leaf or seed outcome.
- For seed, stop high-nitrogen feeding once flower stalks rise and water moderately through pod fill.
- Harvest when plants and most pods are straw-coloured and seed is firm, full-sized and pale yellow.
- Do not eat packet seed; use home-grown seed only when the entire crop was managed for edible seed.
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