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  • From: Leigh Hauter <lh AT pressroom.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: adriana <gutierrez-lagatta AT charter.net>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Chinese lettuce, mesclun
  • Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:08:08 -0400

You didn't add that Tokyo Bekana grows like a weed, even more so than mizuna. It outgrows the weeds and most customers can't tell it from lettuce. A great plant to put in a salad mix.

Speaking of lettuce, I have started to grow Tokyo Bekana cabbage to the baby
stage for use in mesclun mix (personal use only) and like the color and
flavor. Those of you who grow mesclun commercially may consider replacing
all of the lettuce in your mix with Tokyo Bekana. Why?
1. It looks like lettuce in the mix and tastes good (not too cabbagey) and
better texture than baby lettuce.
2. It's rate of grow and number of subsequent cuts is more in line with
other mesclun greens such as tatsoi, mustard, mizuna, etc. When I grew
mesclun commercially I found that the lettuces required special logistics -
they had to be planted 1-2 weeks before all of the other greens, and only
gave 2 cuts instead of 3-4.
3. The yield per sq ft is better than lettuce, even more so when you take
into account a shorter time to harvest and more cuts before tear-out and
reseeding.
4. It is more nutritious than lettuce.
5. Customers don't even notice there's no lettuce in the mix.

Adriana

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