A salad garden of DELIGHTS
“Most seed companies now do seed mixtures of different lettuce varieties in one packet”
It only takes one balmy spring day for a fresh lunchtime salad to suddenly become more appealing than a warming soup. And even in March, you should be able to pick some of the ingredients from the garden.
Lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes might have been the salad staples 30 years ago, but gardeners now have dozens of plants to choose from. Vivid chicories, crisp and spicy oriental leaves, tiny currant tomatoes, multi-coloured roots, green onions... they can give you a vibrant mix of taste, texture and colour from just a few square yards of space.
Such a choice never appears on the supermarket shelves, but this doesn’t mean the plants are difficult to grow – often quite the opposite. They might be fiddly to pick or need to be really fresh, making them unsuitable for sale, but these are not
