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Mizpoona Salad Select
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Much more cold-hardy than lettuce for winter and early-spring salads, Fast-growing, too. Leaves of this mizuna-tatsoi cross are feathery and frilled, with a mild mustard flavor. If you don't like any tang to your salad greens at all, then use these for light cooking. They make a fine braising green. I let these go wild in my garden in the fall and pick them all winter, finishing with sweet flower stalks in spring. (Or let them flower and draw beneficial insects to fight those early aphids.) A staple for restaurants, farmers' markets, and home gardens, to keep your own salad on the table without going to the grocery store. An OSSI open-source variety bred by Frank Morton and grown by him at Shoulder-to-Shoulder Farm. 100 seeds
The Open Source Seed Initiative exists so that breeders who originate new varieties can protect them from exploitation and patenting by corporations. It means that the breeder has freely given up patent rights in order to keep the variety in the public domain forever. The OSSI pledge reads: "You have the freedom to use these OSSI-pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others' use of these seeds or their derivatives, by patents or other means, and to include this pledge in any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives."