500 Seeds/Pkt
(Plantago Coronopus)
Minutina, known also as Erba Stella is a cool season Italian
heirloom salad green producing tender fibreless narrow dark green leaves 25cm
long. A tasty addition to any salad it is also delicious pan and stir fried.
This
biennial from the rocky Mediterranean coast thrives in cold wet conditions and
is best sown from autumn through to spring as it dislikes hot weather.
Minutina
can be treated as a ‘cut and come again’ vegetable. New leaves will continue to
grow but re-sow as vigour reduces.
For
best leaf production sow or plant thickly forcing leaves into a vertical
position as individual plants produce rosettes of leaves that lay flat against
the soil trapping dirt. Grows happily in any moist soil including saline soils.