Restocking on Salads

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Salad Days Soon I’ve started sowing salads of varying sorts in my cold greenhouse and a couple of warm days has had them germinating. I stand the pots in a polystyrene fish box and cover them with fleece if really cold weather threatens, but generally I find that the greenhouse is all the protection they need.

Learn how to make a salad garden. You don’t need a lot of space or a regular garden for this. If you only have a patio or balcony and a few containers, you can still do this.

Salad Days The cool weather during most of May might not have been welcomed by us, but the lettuces clearly loved it. They are looking wonderful and we are enjoying daily pickings.

How good would it be if a part of the food you eat comes from your garden? But what if you don’t have a garden–a backyard to grow food. Not enough space even to start a container garden? People living in cities have this problem.

Highland cows are well known for being perfectly happy outdoors, no matter what the weather does and I’m beginning to think that Japanese salads are of a similar disposition. The outdoor grown ones are far happie

Spring Salads The first batch of salads are now of pickable size – and some of the leaves actually make it as far as the house -although at the moment most are picked a leaf at a time to relish as I work in the garden. I also have a row of the ‘Wasabi’ rocket from Thompson & Morgan growing between the broad beans and it really does have a powerful wasabi-type kick to it.

You can take inspiration from here and create a DIY salad table garden on your patio, rooftop, or balcony to enjoy the fresh homegrown green salad year-round. This would also save space if you use a table with the lower shelf.

Does the threat of cold weather and the changing of the seasons bring a tear to your eye? Pre-winter blues got you down?Just because it’s turned crisp and co