Interesting ideas for "different" leaves.

[veggiechicken]

Just seen this commercial website that sells various leaves to restaurants etc. Some ideas for growing, picking, foraging leaves that are a little bit different.

Westlands | UK growers of cut micro leaf & speciality produce

Baby nettles, who'd have thought it!!

[Chippy Minton]

We've got loads of nettles you can have for a small consideration We grew some red veined sorrel as well but never know what to do with it

I'm thinking of doing some nettle picking this year after SWMBO bought me a plant foraging book.....

[Small pumpkin]

That's a brilliant link VC. Once I'd work out how to find the names on the pictures .
There's lots there I hadn't considered growing as micro greens/herbs .

[veggiechicken]

I thought of you when I saw it. Gives me some ideas too.

.............and Chippy, thanks for the offer but I think SP needs them more than me.

[Lumpy]

Good link VC but if the weather keeps throwing hissy fits we’ll all be having micro everything. X

[veggiechicken]

Just call everything you grow designer microveg and that you always intended it to be this size.
Small is beautiful.

[Scarlet]

We've got loads of nettles you can have for a small consideration We grew some red veined sorrel as well but never know what to do with it

I'm thinking of doing some nettle picking this year after SWMBO bought me a plant foraging book.....

I also “grew” red veined sorrel! It’s like a bl**dy weed!!! ...and no, I don’t like it in soup I just use it sparingly in amongst my other salad leaves- but there’s only so much salad one can eat!

[veggiechicken]

I'm thinking of doing some nettle picking this year after SWMBO bought me a plant foraging book.....

This is all your fault https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...nge_96106.html

[Small pumpkin]

I thought of you when I saw it. Gives me some ideas too.

.............and Chippy, thanks for the offer but I think SP needs them more than me.

I've enough of my own nettles thank you
To be honest that is one leaf I'll not be using. Vicious evil little blighters, at any stage in my opinion. I'll be staying away from them

[Thelma Sanders]

I grew the Red frills mustard last year and when it's small the leaves really do taste like potatoes, and it surprised the grandkids, but it very quickly grows too hot for me to enjoy in a salad, so unless I have a 'mad moment' it won't get sown this year.

[Scarlet]

Ive grown that several year running Thelma (I think I split a pack with VC at the Cardiff show after we bought a few to share), I love it and then it suddenly turns....I also love Mexican tree spinach , again it can become a little invasive but the birds love the seeds

[veggiechicken]

I have some of the frilly green mustard in the GH - everywhere! Its a prolific self seeder. Best stirfried when it gets "hot"!

[Chippy Minton]

This is all your fault https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...nge_96106.html

I get the blame for everything, usually deserved to be fair

[Small pumpkin]

This lot grows as baby leaf

Baby salad Tuscan mix
Baby salad Californian mix
Lettuce little harlequin mix
Baby salad hot 'n' spicy mix
Lambs lettuce
Lettuce salad bowl red & green mix
Pak choi mix
Rocket
Mustard (red)
mild mustard green
Frilly-leaf mix
Miners lettuce
Red veined sorrel
Peas for seed shoots
Mizuna

This lot is micro greens/herbs

Cress
Cress bubbles
Land cress
Leaf-radish cassis
Par-Cel
Baby leaf radish Rioja
Persian cress
Variegated land cress
Leaf radish sangria
Minutina (erba Stella)
Carrot - ferny tops
Lettuce
Celery golden self blanching
Beetroot
Rocket
kale
broccoli
cauliflower
Cabbage
Swiss chard
Radish
Herbs
Basil

Also grow for my salads

Nasturtiums
Pot marigolds
Borage
Pansies
Violas
Water cress

All I have to do now is compare this lot with VC's link and work out what's missing
I'm still not using nettles

[Small pumpkin]

Do you think it matters which variety of cucumber you use for flowers?
I was going to use cucamelons.