Winter can be a miserable time when it comes to salads. I normally find myself resorting to the supermarket bag jobs, which much like my winter commuter bike, are very functional during the colder months, but definitely lack that excitement and zest of their summer alternatives. So yes, winter is rubbish for salads. Or so …
Salads and lettuces are some of the easiest crops to grow on an allotment, and also one of the freshest tasting. The crunch of homegrown lettuce genuinely beats the shop-bought alternatives hands down. Here are 5 different techniques I’ve used to successfully grow tasty salad and lettuce crops.
Have you ever thought of bulking up your salad with other leaves, such as perpetual spinach? Well, I hadn’t, until recently when I found myself wondering what to do with some spare spinach seedlings I’d planted out. The baby leaves were perfect salad size, so I tried them in amongst my summer mixed salad. They …
