Is there a plant that comes every year into your garden self-seeding that brings a lot of abundance? I have. My Mustard Spinach self seeded a couple of weeks ago. I’m so delighted that Mustard Greens keep coming back in my garden, year after year. With absolutely no assistance they provide me with so much free food.

This self-seeding annual keeps bringing abundance into my garden each year – a wonderful volunteer that brings many gifts.

There are so many ways you can eat mustard spinach (Brassica juncea). It is such a wonderful and easy plant to have growing in your garden. In the video below, I am going to tell you how to use this wonderful plant so you can make the most of all the abundance it offers!

These are seven parts of the plant that I eat regularly.

1. young leaves
2. mature leaves
3. young shoots
4. florettes
5. flowers
6. young pods
7. seeds

Mustard spinach has a short life cycle. It grows quickly and also goes to seed quickly, so make the most of the abundance at each stage of its life.

Mustard spinach is a great plant for beginners and one that I find is left alone by wildlife. I love the even spicier purple variety too.This is the link to a 3-minute video I just uploaded to my YouTube channel about this self-seeding plant.

And in this video below, I will teach you how to save the seeds:

What is permaculture?

To learn more about permaculture check out my 4 part permaculture series and take a look at Our Permaculture Life youtube channel where I have uploaded over 100 films I have made in my permaculture garden and in conversation with others.  Dive deeper into this blog too and you will find over 400 permaculture articles.

Now is such a great time to learn more about permaculture and consider making permaculture your way of life and livelihood too. To help with this, I offer two online permaculture courses:

• Permaculture Educators Program – Permaculture Design & Teaching Certificates
• The Incredible Edible Garden – permaculture gardening course

I also encourage you to support free permaculture education programs for women and youth in the global south through our registered permaculture charity, the Ethos Foundation.

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