I love them. This was my first year trying them. The Southern curled are good young for salads and sandwiches and cooked they are delicious with fish and pork. The Jiu Tou Nao has thick cabbage leaves and I am not a fan. We tried a hybrid called Mustard Spicy Greens from Botanical Interests that are really mild and great for salads. I have not tried them cooked. I have Osaka Purple but haven't tasted it yet. We tried Tokyo Bekana and it is beautiful to look at and tastes very mild like lettuce. Definitely will get it again. We let our stand of Southern Curled go to seed so that we will have lots for the upcoming years. We plan to let one type go to seed each year. I have Dragon Tongue and Red to try for next year. I also will be getting some Komatsuna this week and will see if it makes it to a decent size before it gets too cold.

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Fedco has mizuna at a very reasonable price, and if you order at least $30 worth seeds (which wasn't at all difficult for me when I saw the variety they have), shipping is free. I ordered a lot of vegetable seeds, but they have a lot of flower seeds, too, although I don't think they're the special ones some people are looking for. Here is a link that might be useful: Mizuna seeds

I've grown some from WGS (which may be the actual source for Seeds of Change). So far, it has not headed up (sowings late spring, late summer). I will try a fall sowing soon. The WGS catalog claims it is mild, but it is too hot for me when raw. The stems (petiole, central vein) are large; a brief hit of crispy sweet, then a hot aftertaste when raw. Leaf and stem are sweet when briefly steamed, with just a tingle of residual heat (not too hot for me) > this looks like the twisted stem mustard... Are you refering to "horned mustard" (which could be considered as some sort of "twisted" petiole/vein), or to some variety whose bolting stems form a corkscrew? I seem to recall reading a cataog description of a corkscrew bolter, but I don't recall which one. Then there are bumpy stem mustards (which I have yet to grow) that are Mustard's answer to Kohlrabi; these are another beast entirely. Back to "horned mustards"; I could easily imagine that these are transitional forms between heading and looseleaf mustards. I have tried "horned mustard" from WGS. Plants from a winter sowing (harvested during spring) yielded mild and sweet leaves (and bolting stems) with just a mild tingle of heat when raw. Leaves from late spring and summer sowings were too hot for me when raw, but OK after short steaming. The late summer sowing hasn't bolted yet. Bolting stems from the spring sowing were too hot at the flowering end, but mild and sweet from region closest to the roots (when raw). Munching from the thick end starts sweet and mild, then the mouth starts burning about midway up. Bolting stems from the winter sowing were mild and sweet throughout. The winter sowing formed small horns, horns were more subtle for the spring and summer sowings; I was disappointed in the horn size from all sowings so far. I will start a Fall sowing soon. Bolting stems from Bau Sin and horned mustard were usually straight, but sometimes with a mild corkscrew. I got small straight to corkscrew bolts from a fall sowing of "Nan-fong" from Evergreen. I don't recall any corkscrews from Osaka Purple. Drat! I can't remember that corkscrewer, I've just rechecked the websites of Evergreen, Kitazawa & AgroHaiTai. I assume that there are many cultivars of Bau Sin, so that Seeds of Change could differ from that from Evergreen, etc. I was surfing some sites of Chinese seed companies (companies in China) last week and came across a Bau Sin cultivar with a barrel-head (like a Napa/Michelle type Chinese Cabbage) instead of the normal spherical head that resembles European cabbage or iceberg lettuce. Here is a link that might be useful: Wild Garden Seeds