Salad Tubs

Salad tub with spinach, lettuce and pak choi

We have 3 large patio tubs that we're using as salad tubs. They have a mixture of plants for salads including lettuce (Red Salad Bowl and Lollo Rossa), spinach (Hector), Pak Choi (Rubi). They are all good for picking a few leaves here and there to make a salad. Salad can get pretty boring when it's the same things every time, but this way means we get a variety and every salad will be different.

We've had a couple of salads from them, together with the Winter Gem lettuce which we grew in the greenhouse over the winter and planted out a couple of months ago. The missus loves them! The iceberg lettuces are growing and we'll have some outer leaves from them soon too.

The first 3 salad tubs. Crispy spinach in the first one.

The first tubs will need replacing in a few weeks time, so we'll need to sow some more seeds over the next week or two so that we can keep the salads coming all summer.

I must find other leaves we can use in salads. I've had Mizuna in the past but couldn't find any seeds this year.