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Mustard flowers and pods
WHITE MUSTARD
Sinapis alba
White mustard is grown for use as a spice (condiment mustard), as a fodder plant, and as a green ma-
nure crop. The seeds of white mustard and Brassica juncea mustard are the main components of con-
diment mustard. Sinapis alba seeds give hot mustard its spicy flavor. When white mustard, which is
not winter hardy, is grown as a “catch crop” (to “catch” nutrients that might otherwise leach away) fol-
lowing a main crop like wheat or beans, the winter-killed remains of the plants can be worked into the
ground the following spring.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
• 10 ft. 2 (1 m 2 ) of plants
POLLINATION NOTES White mustard blossoms with brilliant yellow flowers that, when pollinated,
produce an elongated pod as their fruit, each of which contains three or four spherical seeds. White
mustard does not cross with mustard ( Brassica juncea ) or black mustard ( B. nigra ).
White mustard seeds
GROWING FOR SEED White mustard is an annual, seed of which is sown in midspring. It blossoms in
early to mid summer.
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