I’ve never really been keen on growing my own salad. I usually pick a few wild ones and top them up with some from the shop. But this year I decided to give growing my own a go.
As slugs and snails are very keen on salad too, I decided to grow it in a container that I can move somewhere those little crawlers can’t easily reach.
I started with a container, made a few holes in the bottom for drainage, filled it with soil, scattered the seeds over the top, and waited. A few days later… tadaa! Lots of little salad plants appeared.
I even took the whole container indoors at night when I needed to protect it.
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I’m really enjoying growing salad because it’s so easy and immediately useful.
There’s something very satisfying about being able to walk outside, pick exactly what you need, and put it straight on your plate.
This is actually my second batch. I enjoyed the first one so much that I planted some more.
Once I’d used about half of it, I started slowing down on the other half, giving it a chance to keep growing so I could keep harvesting from it.
All you need is some salad seeds, which are always handy to have around. You only need a little, too, so a packet goes a long way.
And here’s today’s salad harvest.
I also picked some berries from around the garden to go with the salad:
Raspberries
Grapes
Blackberries
and wild strawberries.
A lovely little mix of what I harvested today.
Fresh, simple, grown myself and picked right here in my little garden.
Have a lovely day. Mariah 🌱🍓