The best, best thing about this time of the year is the salad - out of the garden. And I have a new trick, admittedly not mine. Buy a punnet of living salad from the super market, don't pay more than £1 and, if you are lucky, you might find one for less in the throw out bit, it doesn't matter if it looks a bit tired. Tip the salad out of the punnet and separate all the little lettuces. Plant them about 6 inches apart, water well and in a few weeks or less in this weather, you will have a wonderful crop. At the moment I'm just picking leaves, but as they start to go to seed I'll pick the whole lettuce. It's the easiest and cheapest way to grow salad.
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24 July 2013
Salad Daze
The best, best thing about this time of the year is the salad - out of the garden. And I have a new trick, admittedly not mine. Buy a punnet of living salad from the super market, don't pay more than £1 and, if you are lucky, you might find one for less in the throw out bit, it doesn't matter if it looks a bit tired. Tip the salad out of the punnet and separate all the little lettuces. Plant them about 6 inches apart, water well and in a few weeks or less in this weather, you will have a wonderful crop. At the moment I'm just picking leaves, but as they start to go to seed I'll pick the whole lettuce. It's the easiest and cheapest way to grow salad.