If you harvest them when they are small (2-3 inches), they taste like wasabi arugula. Perfect on a steak sandwich. If you let them get large, they taste like fire, but you can sauté them in bacon fat to mellow them into a savory Southern side dish. I know I said I wouldn’t focus on the metaphor, but I have to.
Take ten of them. Put them in a pot. Water them. planting a mustard seed
In three days, you will see a tiny green hook emerge from the soil. And I promise you, when you see that tiny hook splitting that tiny seed, you will feel like you could move a mountain. If you harvest them when they are small
Here is why planting a mustard seed is the most rewarding, chaotic, and delicious gardening project you’ll start this season. Most vegetables take forever. You plant a tomato in May and pray for a BLT by August. Mustard? Mustard is the caffeine shot of the garden. I know I said I wouldn’t focus on
But the mustard seed doesn't try to be an oak tree. It just grows. It takes the tiny amount of resources it has—a thimble of water, a crack of sunlight—and it explodes with life anyway.