tokyo bekana chinese cabbage

These pale green baby Chinese cabbages may be bunched for market or their ruffled curled lettucy leaves cut to add loft and weight to salad mixes. Bekana will regrow for multiple cuttings and branch out, giving lots of edible leaves with very little coarse stalk. Lacy, mild, sweet, a bit like lettuce but never bitter and makes a good slaw. Adam Tomash seeded his on July 6 for a late Aug.–Sept. harvest. It could be sowed later and, with protection, produce into late fall. But Bryan O’Hara says not as winter-hardy as Mizuna or Tatsoi . Thin to 4–6" for full “heads.”