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.

More Sowings

I love this time of year: the sun starts shining, seeds start sprouting, I try to keep up with digging, the sowings and potting on and planting out ....

Lots of seeds are sprouting in the greenhouse - all the cauliflowers have started, some spinach, a couple of cucumbers etc.

This weekend we've sown:
8 Tomato Golden Sunrise
8 Tomato White Cherry
8 Tomato Roma

8 Tomato Harbinger
8 Tomato Pomodoro
8 Tomato Tigrella

19 Sweetcorn Sweet Bounty

8 Pak Choi Rubi
8 Lettuce Mixed Salad Leaves
4 Aubergine Black Beauty

4 Pepper Hot Caribbean Blend
4 Pepper Heatwave
4 Pepper Inferno
4 Chilli Cayenne
4 Chilli Hot Stuff
4 Chilli Twightlight

Large pot Leek Bandit
2 large pots Leek Musselburgh

1 half size seed tray Lambs Lettuce

Small trough Beetroot Boltardy

Large trough Carrot Chantenay Red
Small trough Carrot Purple Haze
Small trough Carrot Charlemagne
2 small troughs Carrot Autumn King 2

24 Red Cabbage Kalibos

8 Cauliflower Violetta
16 Cauliflower All Year Round

24 Kale Dwarf Green Curled

4 Sweet Pepper Jumbo
20 Sweet Pepper WorldBeater

1 Ginger root into an 8inch pot

Phew!