Cut and come again baby leaf collection
baby leaf salad
Buy my collection of baby leaf cut and come again salad seeds, 10 packets of seeds for just £14.99
- Position: full sun
- Soil: fertile and moisture retentive
There is still plenty of time to reap your rewards in the garden this year and one of my biggest gripes is paying a small fortune to buy bagged salad in the supermarket. You can pay a lot for a small bag, or over-buy on the special offers, only to be left with limp lettuce and end up throwing it away.
Growing your own baby leaf salads means you can ensure you get crisp, fresh leaves when you want them, and you can start harvesting them 3 weeks after sowing. It is easy to set up a rotation so you can always have fresh leaves growing.
There really is a lot more to growing salad crops than just lettuce and the great thing about baby leaf is you get lots of taste on your plate, so no salad will be boring again.
In this collection you will receive 1 packet each of:
Namenia
Relatively unknown but yet still a superb leaf with a mild crunchy texture and a tangy spinach taste. Very early productive plant.
Mizuna
Dark green leaves on long white stems. Use uncooked in salads or add to a stir-fry.
Amaranthus 'Red Army'
The leaves become an intense red as they develop. Excellent for colour in salads. Use as leaves or sprigs. More vigorous than the standard green type.
Spinach Reddy F1
A unique variety ideal for baby leaf salads. Attractive red stem with an oriental shaped leaf. Very sweet in flavour.
Leaf beet Rhubarb Chard
A big, sturdy, handsome plant forming clumps of purple-tinged leaves with vivid crimson mid-ribs that glow in sunshine. The taste is rich and earthy - like a cross between beetroot and spinach. Pick young leaves and eat raw, or cook leaves and midribs separately as a dual-purpose side vegetable.
Beetroot Bulls Blood
Pick the baby leaves to add a rich splash of colour to salads, or leave the plants to mature for classic fat round purple beetroots. The leaves turn an even darker purple in colder weather, so for the richest colours, sow a last crop in September to grow through autumn.
Mustard Red Giant
Peppery and packed with flavour. Use sparingly to add pizazz to lettuce leaf mixes, scatter on pizzas for some extra bite, or use in spicy stir-fries. The red-tinged leaves intensify to deep burgundy in cold weather. The flavour gets hotter and more mustardy as the plants mature, so for a milder taste pick leaves young.
Salad rocket
It shoots out of the ground and in no time you'll be picking your first delicious peppery leaves in a matter of weeks. You can keep picking the large, lobed leaves over a long period. They look gorgeous picked young, adding a spicy edge to mixed leaf salads. the flowers are edible and look great as a garnish.
Sorrel red veined
An unusual and beautiful herb with striking blood-red veining to the leaves and a tangy, lemony flavour. Eat the leaves very young to enjoy the best lemony flavour.
Lettuce Lollo Rossa
A gorgeous lettuce with frizzy purple-tinged leaves which look fabulous in the plot and even better on the plate. Pick the outer leaves as you need them and the heart will continue producing more, giving you a continuous harvest over several weeks.
dwarf French bean 'Sprite'
dwarf french bean
Delicious, dark Green pencil pods
£1.69
approx 150 seeds
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
pea 'Early Onward'
pea
A highly popular, early pea
£1.69
approx 350 seeds
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
pak choi 'Joi Choi' F1
pak choi
A handsome and tasty oriental vegetable
£1.79
approx 125 seeds
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
Five a day vegetable seed collection
Five a day vegetable seed collection
5 packets of seeds
£3.22
5 packets of seeds
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
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