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| texel greens looking good |
Celebrated the sunshine today with a lunch of salad leaves from the transplanted seedlings out back. This is the lots originally sown on February 6th, and transplanted on March 7th. Baby lettuce leaves, texel greens and rocket. As its now March 28th thats 7 weeks from seed to sandwich!!
You can expect even faster results as the weather improves and summer arrives.Some packs take 3 weeks from seed to harvest-Suttons in particular package different mixes of cut and come again salads as "speedy veg" but they tend to be expensive to buy.If you buy your own salad mixes and sow what you want you can do it cheaper. And its always cheaper and tastier than a bought bag from a supermarket!!
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| lovely to have different colours and tastes |
You have to experiment with the rocket, there are a lot of different types. And they all taste different. This one is an organic Italian rocket from ISSA (Irish Seed Savers Association) and it's pretty mild and inoffensive, but the wild rocket which is in the next succession sown tray is much more pungent, spicy and aromatic. That's the stuff I really love.Why sow the other? I have the seeds and I don't want them to go to waste-and the others couldn't be sown that early.
God sorry, I cant keep writing about the virtues of rocket, that crazy fecker Bear Grylls is drinking his own urine on Discovery and unfortunately I can hear the whole thing through the sitting room door! Eugh! it would put you off all thoughts of salad!!
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