I'm pleased that this month I've been able to cut more salad from seed shoots and even have a complete salad from things I've grown.
I'm loving the pea shoots. I have had two cuts from the first lot of shoots I grew and I know I will definitely have another cut from them yet. This first sowing was grown from a few mange tout seeds I had left from last year. I was so impressed by their taste and the speed they grew that I bought a packet of dried marrow fat peas from the supermarket to sow another lot. These are now just starting to sprout having sown them a week ago. I have also got basil seedlings on my kitchen windowsill and some seeds of a mixed leaves 'gourmet garnish' micro greens from Johnsons which look quite interesting and are growing at an amazing rate.
I have now started growing salad for outside. I have some Little Gem lettuce and watercress in seed trays and outside last week in my raised beds I sowed radish and rocket. I bought more lettuce seeds the other week and will soon be sowing Lolo Rosso, mixed leaves and spring onion in my raised beds outside and planting out the Little Gem and watercress.
I'm not all that well organised with my seed sowing, but this salad challenge has got me thinking more. So actually I feel I'm doing much better than in previous years.
For more information on the Salad Challenge click on these links:
http://vegplotting.blogspot.co.uk/p/52-week-salad-challenge.html
http://vegplotting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/salad-days-first-salad.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+VegPlotting+%28Veg+Plotting%29
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