‘Tsoi Sim’ Japanese Flowering Shoots & Leaves

An amazing vegetable from Japan, this grows very quickly – ready in just 3 or 4 weeks – giving vividly glowing green leaves and flowering shoots that are great cooked or raw. 

All parts of the plant has a fantastic flavour, and it is really easy to grow – pick young when it starts to make flower shoots – just before the flowers open is ideal. Harvest young as it flowers – take whole plants, cook the flower shoots and leaves all together. You’ll need 6 or so for a meal, so we give you quite a lot of seed. 

Tsoi Sim runs to seed quicker (a response to lengthening days) if sown early in the year but that’s OK as you’re growing it for the flower stems anyways. So, sow repeatedly at any time, but you’ll get bigger plants if sown after midsummer.

Sow repeatedly at any time, but particularly after midsummer. In late autumn, sow under cover for production over winter.