Where to get a decent salad?

juniee

Got a bag of mixed salad leaves from Morrisons yesterday, they are dry and tastless.Cherry tomatoes are bland and horrible too.
Tried Asda and other supermarkets and even with salad dressing and oil on they are disgusting!
Where can I get a decent salad from?
Also supermarket chicken and meat are getting rubbish, especially the 3 for £10 ones
Need some tasty meals!
juniee:(

badmumof1

Local market or farm shop maybe

vodkawitch1

Box delivery scheme? x

on-the-count-of-three

Maybe not what you want to hear..but an idea nonetheless.

I'm no gardener, far from it, but there's only me here that really eats salad, & I always seem to be throwing half bags away, so this year I got myself a square veg planter & planted seeds...mixed salad leaves, rocket spinach & watercress. I could start picking leaves after 2 weeks & now have absoluetly loads. Picked fresh, tasty & never goes off.
I have a couple of tomato plants too, but they're not ready yet.

As for meat, I stopped buying prepacked some time ago. I still use the supermarkets, but their instore butchers. I also use a local butcher who also has an online ordering & delivery service. You need to see what is available to you locally.

margy

home grown is so much nicer than soggy bagged salad, and you get the satisfaction of knowing you grew it for a few pence

avantra

1 large pot in Lidl = 1.99
1 small bag of compost (10L) =0.99 in Tesco
Packet of salad leaves seeds 30p in Lidl

GYO= £3.28

Get two pots and you can grow in succession all summer long.

juniee

Thanks for the tips.Considering growing my own but tried before and the slugs and snails won. Never have much luck with tomatoes-they are always tiny and all end up ready at the same time.
Local farms are 4 miles away. Market stalls seem to close before I get home from work as do the butchers,
I must make the effort to try and get to a farm and look around, even if its only at weekends.

juniee x

ladylouise62

If you grow in planters it is easier to stop the slugs (see copper tape for instance or a smear of vaseline all around the planter), and some tomatoes produce all in one go, but others don't - you just need to check the type out.

kimmie

You can grow 'tumbling toms' in a hanging basket 8-)

macma

growing salad leaves is childs play saves £££s if you succeed (and you will) try other stuff next year I know 'cos now we've got 2 allotments

savemoney

why not grow your own mixed salad, price of seeds around 70-£1 tops, dead easy to grow you dont even need a garden just a old drainpipe blocked off at either end or some medium sized pots. In 6 weeks tops you have fresh salad leaves to pick over and over again

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