pak choi red

pak choi

• Position: full sun
• Soil: fertile, moist but well drained
  
  An eye-catching salad leaf or oriental vegetable with bronze-tinged leaves turning dark red-purple in colder weather. The leaves of mature plants develop an elegant spoon shape with broad, bright green stems, making this a spectacular plant when full grown. Frost-hardy and slower to bolt in cool conditions, it's an ideal choice for the winter veg plot.
  
  
• Growing Instructions: Sow into pots or seed trays in early spring. Once outside conditions warm up harden off carefully and then transplant to their final growing space allowing 15cm between plants. Later in the season sow direct into shallow drills and thin seedlings to final spacings: keep the thinnings and use as baby leaves in salads. Grow at close spacings for tender baby salad leaves, snipping off leaves about 2cm above ground once they reach 8cm high.
  
  
• Sow: March-September
  
  
• Harvest: April-October
  
  
• Approximate quantity: 150 seeds.