Tag Archives: winter salads

Nine days since my last pick of the winter salads and the growth rate has really dropped off a cliff. I went to pick what I could earlier today and got at most a couple of small leaves from each … Continue reading →

We ran out of salad and wanted some to go with our veggie lasagne last night, so I scavenged what I could off the plants, though pickings were considerably thinner than has been the case up to now. I managed … Continue reading →

Having done a bit of research it appears that coriander plants create new shoots from the leaf axils and can therefore be cut back to just above a leaf axil after which they’ll regrow from that new shoot. This is … Continue reading →

Only eight days since my last pick, but we needed salad for dinner this evening so I went out and took pretty much everything I thought I could. The coriander is getting rather leggy. I don’t know if that’s just … Continue reading →

I recalled whilst writing my last post that I intended to work out the costs for producing the winter salads. I’ve therefore been back through all my order confirmation emails and here they are: Compost £6.00 Mushroom trays £19.50 Newspaper … Continue reading →

My wife asked me to pick some salad today to go with our meal this evening. I was going to leave it a little longer as growth has quite obviously slowed down now and I suspect we’re not far off … Continue reading →

Wandering through the veggie plot during the week I’d seen the salads in the greenhouse and didn’t think there’d be much to pick this weekend, so I was quite surprised by the number of leaves available when I went to … Continue reading →

I’m genuinely surprised I could do this so soon after the first (only five days), but the plants are growing nicely at the moment and even the mustards that were planted a little later than the rest had something to … Continue reading →

Some of the leaves on the winter salads were getting quite large, so I felt it was appropriate to have first pick from them today. I left the mustards alone though as they’re not really big enough yet. I managed … Continue reading →

Today I transplanted the last of the salad leaves that I’m attempting to keep alive through the winter in the greenhouse. These were a mustard called “Pizzo” which took me a little longer to get hold of than the rest … Continue reading →