White mustard "Elendil"

Mustard Yellow "Elendil" - Sinapis alba.
Annual, nectariferous, medicinal, spice plant. Grows best in light clay/sandy loam. Grows fast. Seeds and young leaves (which have a hot taste) are used as food.
Seeds are used to produce mustard powder. Mustard powder can be used with meat and fish dishes as seasoning, leaves – can be used in salads.
Mustard is used to cure atherosclerosis, gastro-intestinal diseases, rheumatism, and eczema.
1,0 g contains approximately 145 seeds.
1000 seeds = 5,0-6,0 g.
200,0 g = 125 m2.

It can grow in any soil with a pH ranging from very acidic to alkaline. Seeds germinate at +3°C. Seedlings withstand short-term frosts down to -5°C.
Mustard sprouts quickly and grows quickly. The green mass is mowed when the leaves of the plant are fresh, juicy, better before mass flowering, because. when harvesting at a later date, the leaves will begin to die off and the organic mass will decrease, and the ripened seeds will clog the garden bed. On average, the period from sowing to incorporation of mustard into the soil is 55-70 days (8-10 weeks).
It is better to plant it in the soil or dig a little, and by autumn everything will already rot.
The seeding rate is 2.5 - 4.0 g/m2. The depth of embedding into the soil is 2-3 cm (sowing is lightly burying with a rake into the soil).
The next crop is planted no earlier than 3-4 weeks after the incorporation of the green mass.
The phytosanitary impact of mustard is also important - after planting, the incidence of plants with such common diseases as: late blight, rhizoctoniosis, fusarium rot, incl. and in potatoes.
In recent years, many farmers refuse to use manure. It is not easy to get it in the right quantities, laboriousness is high and the price is high. Moreover, the contamination of the site with weeds (in the case of manure) will force the use of herbicides or exhausting weeding. In this case, green manure will serve as a serious alternative to manure.
Green manure is understood as green manure crops, the fresh plant mass of which is used for fertilizer to enrich the soil with organic matter.

Eng.: White mustard, MUSTARD YELLOW. Bot. syn.: Brassica hirta Moench, Sinapis alba L. subsp. alba.