Leaf Salads

[tim]

Irrepressible - irresistible!!

[tim]

[teresa]

Oh Tim looking good enough to eat, like the bucket idea will try that for sons new house, garden all concrete.

[amanda21]

Lovely - they look like a packet i have - not quite as lush looking yet though.

[sandersj89]

Is that the T&M Niche Mix Tim? I have been growing it for a couple of years with great results.

Start with them in Jan in the greenhouse and now sowing outside direct right through to the end of August them more in autumn in cold frames.

Great looking salad.

Jerry

[tim]

teresa - whoa!! Yes, they grow fine in a container or tray, but that's today's pick from the bed.

Jerry - one's a 'spicy mix' - the other is a 'stir-fry mix'. I tried so many this year that I'm mixed up!

[saddad]

We have several mixes in the garden... they are great to liven up a salad!
;D

[supersprout]

I suppose it would be possible to use up left-over salad seeds at the end of the year in a home made mix, and sow in a seed tray throughout the winter? Your mixes do look enticing tim :)

[kitty]

everytime i pick a meal full i think-theres another £1.49.i!!!f its more mixed leaves than usual-i say-theres another £1.99!(esp.from mr marks and mr spencer!)
we grow ours in tin baths ,some on raised beds-some just outside the back door in old colanders hung up -away from mr and mrs slug!
we eat salad leaves all year round -(except january)by cloching the baths.
kitty

[Mrs Ava]

Super Tim!  I have lots of mixed batches, can't remember what, but they are great value, and as you say Kitty, worth loads in the supermarket.  Just goes to show the huge mark up those b*ggers are making when the flog limp salads!

[kitty]

just think what our innards are missing with all the strange gas they use for'plumping up' the bags! ;D
not to mention whatever they wash the leaves in.eeww!




i said not to mention it!! ;D
kitty

[tim]

But NOW - they wash them in 'water with fruit additives'................??

[supersprout]

fruit acids are good for wrinkles? ???

[kitty]

'water with fruit additives'

good grief!
it just gets weirder!-what will they inflict on us next? ::)

kitty

[Mrs Ava]

But you can rest assured you won't come across a stray slug in one of those supermarket packets....like I did tonight when making supper!  :P  Good job I am not squeemish and nobody but me was in the kitchen!!  :D

[kitty]

thats protein that is!

at least slugs canstay alive on our salads! ::)

kitty

[Mrs Ava]

I find they get stuck in my wisdom teeth though.  :P

For a good winter loose leaf salad, there is an Italian mix from I think T&M.  Stood in the ground, in the open, all winter through, and I have only just pulled the last of it up as it started to bolt.  The chicories however are staying put as they are bulking up!

[supersprout]

Thanks emma, eye-talian salad on the list! ;D

[fbgrifter]

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[tim]

Jerry - sorry - the far row IS Niche.

[MrsKP]

I love the purple/green leave ........nice and hot hot hot.

does there come a time when i have to pull up a row though.  i've been cutting my niche for about a month now and it's looking a bit bald.  the continuity slipped a bit and a mixed row got sown yesterday.  there's a couple of alternative rows of red and green salad bowl that will last a couple of meals but the niche has been prolific.