2017 - Grow Salad with me Challenge

[OscarSidcup]

Do sproutings count? I am currently only "growing" in a jar little sproutings (from chick peas, various beans, lentils and sunflower seeds). If yes, then I can post a photo each time I get a different mix on the go...
Otherwise I will be back once I an grow salad outdoors, as I do not have a greenhouse and it is far too cold in Kent to grow anything outside... I love salads and have a great range lined up for growing this year. We are currently deciding on the succession sowing plan and also building new table height raised beds with copper protections on the legs to minimize the slug risk and nettings for other interference!

[veggiechicken]

We're not sizist here, Oscar
All shapes and sizes of salad stuff are welcome - so bring out your Sproutlings and let's have a look

[OscarSidcup]

Here we go. Sprouting of the day!

[veggiechicken]

Very colourful
What are they?

[Penellype]

Here we go. Sprouting of the day!

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Wonderful. Sprouting seeds and microgreens are so easy and quick and make great additions to salads at this time of year.

[Scoot]

Nearly lunch time

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Clockwise from the top - lettuce Warpath (mini iceberg variety), baby carrots (Flyaway), corn salad, a few red tinged lettuce leaves from a mixed lettuce pack, beetroot Boltardy, chinese celery, mibuna, Sungold tomatoes and microgreens (radish Sangria, cress and choy sum).

Now all I have to do is decide between chicken and sardines. Chicken I think.

If that's all I had for my dinner I think I'd waste away within the hour. Haha.

[OscarSidcup]

Very colourful
What are they?

Here we have a mix of chick peas, aduki beans, mung beans, green & red lentils and sunflower seeds

[Penellype]

If that's all I had for my dinner I think I'd waste away within the hour. Haha.

I tend to have a small lunch and eat more at tea time, but that is not usually salad, especially in winter.

[Penellype]

Today's lunchtime salad:



Clockwise from top - 2 sorts of baby lettuce, baby choy sum, mizuna, namenia, mibuna, microgreens (Provencale salad mix), alfalfa sprouts, corn salad, Shirley and Sungold tomatoes.

[Penellype]

Salad is something of a challenge when everything outside is frozen solid. But then, I love a challenge, so here is today's lunchtime salad to go with my tuna:



Clockwise from top - baby Charlotte potatoes grown in my friend's greenhouse and harvested on Saturday, the last of the snackbite orange peppers from the landing windowsill, pea shoots from under the grow lights, a few rather scratty Sungold tomatoes (probably the last ones fit for salad), bits of lettuce from the grow light garden getting a bit past it but more on the way, provencale salad microgreens and beetroot from my friend's garden, harvested yesterday.

As I have now run out of tomatoes, new potatoes and peppers, another challenge awaits next week!

[burnie]

My problem is I can't eat some salads due to my tummy not liking them, no cucumbers or lettuce, I grow them for the family, but I eat cabbage raw instead of lettuce and have celery instead of cuckes.
My salad is often coleslaw or just raw cabbage, carrots and celery along with watercress that I grow. Tomatoes are grown of course, but I'm thinking they aren't what most folk include in this category?
I grow beetroots as well, but they are usually roasted rather than as a salad item.

[Penellype]

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a salad (noun) as:
A cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked vegetables, usually seasoned with oil, vinegar, or other dressing and sometimes accompanied by meat, fish, or other ingredients.

Ingredients I would class as salads certainly include tomatoes, but can also include things like rice, pasta, nuts, fruit and seeds. I don't include those that I don't grow in my pictures, but I do sometimes eat them.

[Small pumpkin]

I will be growing a bit of salad again this year. But I'm not going to be joining in with the challenge, well not properly anyway .
So I'll be growing this lot
Lettuce freckles.
Lettuce marvel of 4 seasons.
Cos lettuce lobjoits green cos.
Lettuce little gem.
Lettuce French salad mix.
Lettuce Tom Thumb.
Lettuce headed mix
Lettuce red iceberg
Lettuce valdor (winter lettuce)
Lettuce multigreen 3


Salad
Beetroot rainbow beet
Baby salad Tuscan mix
Baby salad Californian mix
Lettuce little harlequin mix
Baby salad hot 'n' spicy mix
Cress
Cress bubbles
Land cress
Watercress
Leaf-radish cassis
Lambs lettuce
Lettuce salad bowl red & green mix
Spinach
Pak choi mix
Rocket
Mustard (red)
Frilly-leaf mix
Miners lettuce
Red veined sorrel
Par-Cel

And just about to order this lot (now I've been paid for my salad sales last year)
Baby leaf radish Rioja
Persian cress
Variegated land cress
Mizuna Red Baron
Summer purslane mix
Leaf radish sangria
Minutina (erba Stella)
Peas for seed shoots

I will take a few photos when it all gets going and throughout the summer, I'll let you know when I start harvesting & stop, but that's as close to joining in as I will get. Sorry VC
Nearly forgot, also grow pansies, violas, nasturtiums & marigolds as salad.

[veggiechicken]

I haven't done too well at taking photos of salad on a plate but here's it growing and I take leaves as required!

[vixylix]

Just a bit of salad SP? I'd hate to see a lot of salad!