salad from the greenhouse

The sowing continues.. it feels like the big push now to get everything sown.. at the same time not getting carried away and sowing the frost delicate stuff too soon. sowed more carrots, swede (first go at that) PSB, pumpkin (little early but I threw down the gauntlet at my dad.. so the race is on….(hi Dad!)) and starting to put the brassicas out.

A reward is the first salads from the greenhouse.. The line of radishes I sowed back along is overwhelming me now.  “only sow a foot at a time” - they say.. but they are wrong.. because at first you only get one or two out of 4 ft.. but now it’s rather too much radish.. not in quantity.. but size.. one is enough for a sandwich.

Now my lettuce production line is coming into it’s own.  I sow a pinch of seeds in a pot (well for pot read bowl, pot, dish, old biscuit carton or something else recycled.. ) When they germinate, I sow another.  When they are big enough, I pick a few out and pot them on, to eventually be planted in the greenhouse border to grow into a full-sized lettuce.. the remainder I use as cut and come again, until I wear it out… I bought mixed seed this year, containing cos, butter head and iceburg.. next time I might go for an even wider range. The sorrel is standing waiting as always, lending a lemony bite to a salad, and the herbs are making a return, including mint, chives, garlic chives, and the rocket from last year. You have to love plants that grow back, or better still never leave.. and take so little tending.