2017 - Grow Salad with me Challenge

[Penellype]

Time for some more leaves.



4 sorts of lettuce, radish tops (a bit big to be called microgreens but perfectly edible), choy sum microgreens, mispoona (the whole crop from 8 overwintered plants of which 3 survived and were producing flower buds), early mizuna, corn salad and alfalfa sprouts.

[Penellype]

Today's salad



Corn salad, mizuna, 4 sorts of lettuce, radish tops and choy sum, chinese celery and the 2nd of the 2 tomatoes from the overwintered Shirley plant (very small).

[Penellype]

Everything except the lettuce has been grown outside this time:



3 sorts of lettuce, baby pak choi and namenia, corn salad, mizuna.

[Cadalot]

Getting these slowly

[vixylix]

P, you are definitely winning this challenge!

[Penellype]

Today's salad - quite a plateful and getting a little less green all over:



Chives, pak choi, red vein spinach, mizuna, corn salad, red mustard, namenia, 2 sorts of lettuce.

I was going to have a plateful with everything grown outdoors today, but the lettuce leaves were almost touching the grow lights so I had to eat them!

[Penellype]

More of the same today:



3 types of lettuce, red vein spinach, corn salad, baby pak choi, namenia thinnings.

[veggiechicken]

You're doing very well, Penellype, keeping this thread going all on your own!
I'm embarrassed at not having posted any photos of my few salad leaves

[Penellype]

Another plate of leaves:



2 sorts of lettuce, the last of the overwintered mizuna (bolting), some beetroot thinnings (bulls blood - a variety grown for cut and come again leaf), the last of the corn salad which has gone to seed and is getting mildew, baby pak choi and namenia.

[Penellype]

Oh, the forgotten joys of harvesting lunch in the rain! Everything is soaking wet, but we do need it.



Lettuce Relic (starting to bolt), Pak choi (also starting to bolt), namenia, red vein spinach, chives and garlic chives, radish microgreens and cold new potatoes (Lady C) left over from last night's dinner. The plan was to add an avocado to this but there wasn't room on the plate!

Not quite ready yet, but a contender for next week's salad:



Tomato Shirley sown in January.

[Penellype]

Salad again for lunch today:



mixed baby lettuce leaves, pak choi (bolting now), cut and come again baby beetroot leaves, tomatoes Shirley, balconi red and balconi yellow and namenia.

[veggiechicken]

I am eating salads, honest
Here's my salad trolley from which I pick leaves most days - and I picked my 2nd Passandra cucumber today.

[Penellype]

That's a great idea - are the lettuces in a grow bag? They are much bigger and healthier looking than mine which are stuck with artificial light.

My cucumber plant (Cucino) in my friend's greenhouse is just producing its first flowers, so hopefully I will have some to eat fairly soon.

[veggiechicken]

Its a bag of compost, on its side with the top cut open, and a few drainage holes jabbed in it. The darker leaves were winter lettuce seedlings and I scattered mixed lettuce seeds over the rest.
Its working really well - no pests or birds, leaves stay clean and I can push it around!
I'd like to obtain some more trollies - this one was dumped outside the house and I'm several miles from the nearest supermarket. When I've reported them before, the stores take months to pick them up, so I'm looking after this one for them................until I tell them I've found it!

[burnie]

Not picked any yet, Cos, mixed colours and Iceberg, not many as I can't eat them just now, had radish as well.