Salad leaves

westiea

I have a 4 tier mini plastic greenhouse (wilkinsons 3 years ago £10) and i fill it with seed trays - 3 to a tier - I stagger plant my seed trays weekly or as the crop is used up

I use mixed salad and rocket seeds - (cut and come-again) in whatever is the cheapest compost at the start of the year and never buy salad for 7 months of the year.

I keep the door open in the day, the greenhouse is on gravel.

I never suffer with greenfly or slug damage.

I wash the salad only in a colander as I do not use pesticides and feed with a dilute seaweed feed.

Yummy!!!!!!

Ken68

Have given up growing lettuce and cabbage (bugs and pigeons) and now have perpetual spinach, all the year round, either steamed or as a cold salad with olive oil/vinegar dressing plus eggs or whatever.
Like the idea of growing in troughs will give it a go.Will be nearer the kitchen.

alys_fowler

i have planted a variety of salad leaves out in odd shaped pots and boxes so hopefully we will have a few salads from them

savemoney

I have had no greenfly mine are out in elements I did get some greenfly on my pepper in cold frame. Had to bring it into house as it was almost dying last week

I have had great success with them, really pleased with the abundant crop. Lettuce doing fine minus odd slug attack whilst in trays

dorisday

I have my troughs stood on my gh staging which I had to put outside because tomato plants were taking over, so no slug or bugs and havent as yet seen any greenfly.

danielley

westiea wrote: »

I have a 4 tier mini plastic greenhouse (wilkinsons 3 years ago £10) and i fill it with seed trays - 3 to a tier - I stagger plant my seed trays weekly or as the crop is used up

I use

They are are £9.98 in Wilkos now, been reduced from £12 - Definitely worth a pop if you have the space.

http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/Seed-Trays+Propagators/Wilko-Mini-Greenhouse-4-Tier/invt/0169741?htxt=PsAGyAqy%2FDSGVBgOHPBfATKVETOKIWHcwqoICuDrG%2FxTcDPfxIrYzUvEu76RzzM6wutKTeo9AOCB%0AtDs76aYYKg%3D%3D

jollymummy

I've got a raised bed in the garden with mixed salad leaves in it. I've also got two black flower buckets next to the back door, so I can pop outside and snip a few leaves at a time.

dogstarheaven

also, bought myself a salad spinner as it got too time-consuming with the drying of the salad leaves.. spinner was £4.50 a Tesco Value one (was so sure they could of been cheaper than that!). washing the leaves isn't such a great chore really.. just a sink full of water, swish it around for a bit and spin away. it's amazing how much water the leaves collect that is left in the bottom of the bowl.

the greenfly is just a natural course of growing things (i'm organic, so i'm used to seeing pests - altho' the greenflies weren't affecting the lettuces or the other saladings). i'd rather have eaten a couple of greenflies than digesting agri-chemical grown lettuce any day! (i hate all the gassed bags of salad leaves where most ppl would waste the majority anyway..)

btw, water isn't wasted as it's reused for watering my plants!