2017 - Grow Salad with me Challenge

[Penellype]

Today's lunchtime salad:



2 sorts of lettuce (Relic, Warpath), cut and come again beetroot leaves, first Meteor peas, radish microgreens, namenia, tomatoes Balconi red and yellow and Shirley.

[Penellype]

Me again.



2 sorts of lettuce (Relic and Warpath), tomatoes Shirley, Balconi red and yellow, celeriac thinnings, red basil, peas (Meteor), new potatoes (Charlotte) and cut and come again beet greens.

I'm finding this really interesting to see how the composition of a salad gradually changes through the year. If I'd thought to take a photo on Saturday I'd have had a mini cucumber in the picture (Cucino, the first from my friend's greenhouse), but I was in too much of a hurry to eat it!

[Penellype]

Today's salad



Lettuce Relic and Warpath, the best of the greenery from the bolted yellow beetroot and 3 tiny roots (which tasted so gorgeous that I went straight out and sowed some more), Shirley and Balconi tomatoes, basil microgreens, a chive flower and some Charlotte new potatoes.

[Penellype]

Summer salad today



Lettuce Relic and Valmaine, beetroot leaves, tomato Shirley and a cucumber Cucino from my friend's greenhouse.

[rary]

No photos just info. I was out for lunch today and had some salad leaves with what I picked, once we were back home I was making a salad for our tea, what a difference in taste with fresh picked lettuce so much better.

[veggiechicken]

No photos from me either - I keep forgetting Most days I pick some salad leaves from the trolley and 4 cucumbers so far. Plenty of salad onions too. Still waiting for the first tomato however.
My salads are never as beautifully presented as Penellype's!

[rary]

The gardens down south are so much more advanced than the gardens up here, well mine anyway, there'd are no flowers on my courgettes or cucumber yet but I have been using lettuce, radish and chard (as salad leaf) and some potatoes, though I have had problems with those, no matter I still enjoy spending time in the garden, even if I don't get the results I want.
I should have added I do have peppers and tomatoes on my plants but nowhere near ready yet

[Penellype]

Today's salad:



Lettuce Warpath, red and green cress, tomato Shirley, basil, celeriac leaves, the first Snackbite orange pepper of the season and beetroot leaves.

For those that think my salads are "beautifully presented", this is what it looked like when it was ready to eat (with the addition of some ham, mayonnaise and lemon juice):

[Penellype]

Quite similar this week:



Lettuce Warpath and Valmaine, a few bits of cress, garlic chives, purple basil, cold Charlotte new potatoes, peppers snackbite red and yellow, tomatoes Shirley and Balconi yellow, nasturtium leaves, cut and come again beetroot leaves.

[Penellype]

Slightly different type of salad for yesterday's lunch:



Lettuce Warpath (grown outside), cucumber Cucino and Hurst Greenshaft peas, plus the remains of the previous evening's pasta sauce - baby courgettes, tomatoes, onions and orange and yellow snackbite peppers.

[Jungle Jane]

I made a salad a couple of days ago the only thing not from the garden is the salad cream,the yellow courgette was tiny but it was the first I've ever picked & grown in my life & I can't wait for them to grow Marvel of four seasons leaves,cucino cucumber,balconi red tomato,red onion,lady C potatoes I think or Arran pilot I can't remember,gold rush courgette & sprig of parsley from the windowsill.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Ya Know what! I have not kept up to speed with this thread!

But tell ya what! having done so! Lady P! You have knocked spots!

I am so inspired!

Cleared n feed a few beds today!

So gunna give this a bash for overwintering stuff!

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Right! This is mix of replying to this thread and overwintering radish!



Another to clear, and have a few others to put in place!

But on the side lines, as this year as been a bit of a "Washout"

Molli Mino
Kulata Cerna (Black Radish)
Scarlet Globe
French Breakfast
Chioggia Beet
Crimson Globe

And various Oriental salad leaves n plants!

Not to mention the normal " Run of the Mill" Lettuce!

See how we go!

[Jungle Jane]

Homegrown dinner except the egg was from the shop. Gustav's Salad lettuce,Marvel of four seasons lettuce,nasturtium leaves,gold rush courgette,cucino cucumber,balconi red tomato & red onion. Both varieties of lettuce are good,I've just sowed some more

[Penellype]

What a lovely arrangement JungleJane - very artistic