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Wasabi Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A slow perennial grown for its pungent rhizome, needing cool shade, clean moving water or constantly damp soil.

Wasabi

Eutrema japonicum

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Sow / plantGrowingHarvest

Guides

Pests and diseases (3)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Root Rot

MajorDisease

Fine roots rot brown to blackish brown, growth stops and the lower leaves yellow. The plant wilts easily in the daytime and eventually dies outright.

Cabbage White Caterpillar

CommonPest

Irregular holes appear in the leaves and eventually only the veins remain. Dark green pellets of frass are conspicuous at the crown and on leaf undersides.

Aphids

CommonPest

Small green or black insects cluster on shoot tips and leaf undersides, crinkling the leaves and stopping growth. The honeydew they excrete supports sooty mold that blackens the foliage.

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