Cut and come again veggies!

[veggiechicken]

As a single person, I don't want to pick a big lettuce and have to eat it quickly before it goes limp, so I grow salad leaves instead. Pick a few leaves for my salad and let the rest grow on.
You can do that with kales and broccoli too, but what other vegetables would work this way. Can I shift from hearting veggies to individual leaves that, in theory, would be more space-effective.
Suggestions wanted please

[binley100]

T-S grows cut and come again leeks..........Cabbages if you cut them off and put a cross in the stalk they will regrow four smaller ones........

[veggiechicken]

.....lettuces do that too! I'm trying to think of seeds to sow that don't result in a head but I can pick a couple of leaves of this or that and a stalk of t'other. I'd like variety but not quantity - if that makes sense!!

[Ananke]

If you don't firm cabages in they don't heart up and you could harvest the loose leaves as and when you need them.

[veggiechicken]

I'm being optimistic really when I says I don't want to pick a hearting cabbage - as I rarely get to that stage Being able to pick a few leaves at a time would give me an excuse for being a pathetic gardener

[binley100]

Chard .....swiss or ruby ?

[binley100]

But a lot of veg if you grow them closer don't get so big .......Spinach as well .........

[veggiechicken]

Chard and spinach are good - and I grow those. I suppose its the heartening things that seem to take up space for a long time before they're pickable - then you get a great lump of it to chomp your way through!

[binley100]

You can get cabbages that are cut and come again........Couve Trinchuda(portugese cabbage) and Real seeds do a tree cabbage which you can keep going for a couple of years.......Paul & Becky's Asturian Tree Cabbage

[veggiechicken]

They're the sort of things I want to grow Bins - perennial veggies that you can forage from! I've just been looking at the Asturian Tree cabbage. I grew Walking Stick cabbage once - wonder if its simiilar

[Ananke]

I'm loving this tree cabbage.

[veggiechicken]

Is it the Asturian Ananke?

[Ananke]

Yeah, I've just ordered some seeds from realseeds, I'll send you some if you want to try it out.

[Doive]

Been beaten to it! Tree cabbage are superb, we grew ten of them last year and were picking carrier bags full of leaves every week and giving them away - and still had enough for the house. And even after their weekly harvest, the plants looked virtually untouched, and quickly regrew what had been removed.

Another good plant we grew alongside the tree cabbage was Sutherland Kale. These are similar to the cabbage, with similar high yields, and produced continuously from May to Christmas with little let up. Only thing to watch for is slugs and caterpillars, they hide in the plants and destroy them.

[Ananke]

Hi Doive

I was planning just growing one as they look really big but now I'm not so sure. I don't think I'd need ten though, maybe two or three and grow some summer cabbage for making slaw.