Brown Mustard

🌱 Planting Window

• 🍂 Best: Late Summer to Early Fall (August to October)
• 🌸 Also Good: Early Spring (March to April)
• ☀️ Not Recommended: During the hottest part of summer unless irrigated

Best for:

• 🌱 Quickly covering bare soil
• 🌿 Suppressing annual weeds
• 🍂 Adding organic matter
• 💧 Capturing leftover nutrients
• 🦠 Supporting an active soil system
• 🔄 Resetting beds between crops

Ideal Uses

• Vegetable gardens
• Raised beds
• Recently harvested garden areas
• Beds being prepared for the next crop
• Between-season cover cropping
• Fall cover cropping

Why gardeners love it

• Establishes quickly and produces abundant leafy growth.
• Creates a dense canopy that helps compete with annual weeds.
• Captures nutrients that might otherwise be lost from bare soil.
• Adds valuable plant material back to the soil when terminated.
• Brassica roots help keep soil active between garden crops.
• Easy to terminate before planting your next crop.

🌱 Farm Wisdom

Brown mustard works best when you give it time to grow, then terminate it before it sets mature seed. Every garden grows on its own schedule, so use these planting windows as a guide and adjust for your local climate and growing season.