2017 - Grow Salad with me Challenge

[Jungle Jane]

I picked all these today except the tomatoes were picked a week or two ago. Marvel of four seasons salad,a few rocket leaves the caterpillars didn't want,cucino cucumber,large mavras sweet pepper finally turning red it's really sweet & juicy,the other red pepper is long red marconi also a nice sweet pepper but not as thick,spring onion,large mountain princess tomato,orange banana,radana & black icicle tomatoes.

[Jane0o0]

Lettuce

I have an unheated greenhouse but was wondering if you can grow stuff in it like spring onions and different kind of lettuce at this time of year or is it to late? I'm new to gardening.

I had started spring onions off but they don't seem to be getting any bigger.

[Penellype]

Today's salad:



Lettuce Warpath, nasturtium flowers, pea shoots, cucumber Cucino and tomatoes Ferline and Sungold.

[Jungle Jane]

I made this salad yesterday when I picked the cucumber & sweet pepper mavras. Peppers are slow to ripen this year,theres a few outside changing colour now,ones forever green. Gustav's salad,marvel of four seasons salad,mavras sweet pepper,three black cherry & three radana tomatoes,two German lunchbox tomatoes,lots of gold rush currant tomatoes,the biggest tomato is zlatava,spring onions & tiny cucumber cucino.

[Penellype]

Today's salad



Pak choi, mizuna, namenia, lettuce Warpath and Lollo Rossa, baby cucumber Mini Munch, tomatoes Ferline and Sungold.

[lolie]

In the spirit of this thread, I have decided that I'm going to try to grow a windowsill salad.

It's impossible to keep lettuce alive outside over summer, so I've sown of couple of pots of leaf lettuce to keep on my windowsill, along with salad burnet, radishes, silverbeet, baby pak carrots, leeks, celery and spring onions. I'll probably plant a couple of Florida basket seeds as well (I could bring a seedling inside, but the challenge is to grow a salad on my windowsill from scratch).

While I expect pretty much everything to die during summer heatwaves, and I'm not sure my windowsill gets enough light for most of the things I've planted, it will be interesting to see how many salads I can get before that happens.

So far, salad burnet, bistro mix lettuce, and spring onions have germinated.

Wish me luck.

[Penellype]

You may need to protect them from getting burnt by hot sunshine if the window gets direct sun - something like a net curtain would help.

[lolie]

You may need to protect them from getting burnt by hot sunshine if the window gets direct sun - something like a net curtain would help.

I'm growing them on a south facing window, so no direct sun. It will still get very hot in summer, though, and I suspect they'll be a bit leggy because the light won't be direct but we'll see how we go.

[Penellype]

Lunchtime



Lettuce Lollo Rossa and Warpath, nasturtium leaf, mizuna, namenia, baby spinach Gigante D'Inverno, pepper Snackbite Yellow, Tomatoes Sungold and Ferline, pea shoots.

Here it is ready to eat, with added tuna mayonnaise and some snipped garlic chives:



Time to tuck in

[lolie]

Current state of the "grow an entire salad on my windowsills" madness.



As you can see below, I'm still not having much luck with spring onions even though this lot is a different variety, in a different medium, and in a different location than usual.

[Penellype]

Today's salad:



Lettuce Lollo Rossa, Warpath and some regrowth from a cut down Relic plant. Beet leaves (Bull's Blood), tomatoes Sungold and Shirley, alfalfa sprouts.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Lady P!

You have nailed this thread throughout the year!

And JJ backing it up back end of the season!

My hat off to you Girls!

[Penellype]

Lady P!

You have nailed this thread throughout the year!

And JJ backing it up back end of the season!

My hat off to you Girls!

I eat salads most days to be fair - the trick is remembering to photograph it, so I try to do it every Monday as it makes things easier. The next couple of months are probably the most challenging though as most of the summer stuff has now gone.

[Penellype]

Today's salad



Lettuce Warpath and Lollo Rossa, nasturtium flowers rescued from the frost, tomatoes Ferline and Sungold, mizuna and namenia.

The Ferline tomato is one of the ones I picked when the plant got blight and has ripened indoors. About 1/3 of the fruit I picked turned brown, the other 2/3 are ripening slowly, and have hopefully avoided the blight, much to my surprise.

[Penellype]

Mid-November salad, all grown outdoors except the Warpath lettuce (although the tomatoes were picked green and ripened indoors)



Lettuce Lollo Rossa and Warpath, red mizuna, namenia, nasturtium leaf, tomatoes Ferline and Sungold, small beetroot Boltardy, chinese celery leaf.