Salad Leaves

Ideal for sowing in an unheated greenhouse. A mix of 4 'winter greens' that can be sown for 'salad leaves' but are ideally module raised and transplanted for full sized plants. Delicious, fresh leaves and tender stems. Ideal as a steamed vegetable throughout the winter months. Can also be sown outdoors during summer/autumn.

Italian salad vegetable used to add zest, colour, texture and unique flavour to mixed salads. Ideal for autumn and early winter use, with outstanding weather resistance. Can also be used as a salad leaf through the spring and summer. Distinctive flavour and texture in a mixed salad.

Prefers a fertile, well-drained soil in full sun.

Combines the speed of Salad Rocket and the flavour of Wild Rocket. An upright habit, so keeps the attractive serrated leaves clean and disease free. Pungency increases as the plants develop. Best cut as small leaves. Slow to bolt.

An alternative to the usual Rocket, with deep green, serrated foliage that makes an attractive garnish. Wild Rocket has a stronger flavour than standard Rocket, and the young leaves can be picked in succession and are perfect for salads. Easy to grow. Height 15-20cm (6-8in), prostrate habit.

These fast growing salad leaves bring together a brilliant mix of colour, texture and flavour. Salad leaves 'Sprinter Mix' combines mild flavoured Pak Choy 'Golden Yellow', Choy Sum and Mizuna, with a hint of spice from the Greek Cress and Mustard 'Red Frills'. The perfect way to add interest and flavour to your salads and sandwiches..

Height: 15cm (6inch)
Spread: 15cm (6inch)

An excellent forcing variety that produces lovely chicons that are so expensive to buy in the supermarket. In the autumn the plant's leaves are removed and the new tender 'chicon' is forced in the dark to produce this delicacy. Very popular in northern France, Belgium and Holland it can be eaten raw in salads or whole heads can be braised, steamed or baked 'au gratin'.

A very popular salad ingredient in France with a distinctive, quite bitter flavour. The tender young leaves are a traditional ingredient of Mesclun, the classic mixed green salad of the south of France, and were originally collected with other leaves and herbs growing wild in the countrside. Very easy to grow in the garden or in containers, to harvest as whole heads or baby leaves.

Very easy to grow Oriental mustard with attractive deeply divided, darkly coloured leaves which become hotter as they mature. Pick as baby leaves for salads or stir-fry larger ones.

Very easy to grow oriental leaf with deeply cut glossy leaves and a mild spicy tang. It can be picked as baby leaves for salads or left to mature and used in stir-fries.

Add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes and also stir fries. Sow regularly all the year round for a constant supply of salad leaves. Pick nutritious leaves in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Ideal in containers on the patio.Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C and K, and folate. CONTENTS: Mustards Red Giant, Red Feather and green frilled Pizzo.

New 2008

Quick growing, nutritious salad leaves in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes. Sow regularly all the year round for a constant supply of salad leaves. Ideal in containers on the patio. Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C and K, and folate. CONTENTS: Lettuces Red Cos, Green Cos, Catalogna & Endive Romanesco.

New 2008

Add colours, tastes and textures to your stir fries, mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes, also use as a steamed or microwaved vegetable. Sow regularly all the year round for a constant supply of nutritious salad leaves. Ideal in containers on the patio. Quick growing, under 30 days during summer months. Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C and K, and folate. CONTENTS: Mizuna, Canton Pak Choy, Red Mustard, Texel Greens & Cavolo Nero.

New 2008

Add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes. Sow regularly all the year round for a constant supply of salad leaves. Pick nutritious salad leaves in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Ideal in containers on the patio. Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C & K, and folate. CONTENTS: Green lettuce, Mizuna, Salad Rocket, Greek Cress, Giant Red Mustard and Chicory Puntarelle.

This innovative blend will add oriental flavours, colours and textures to your salads. Ideal for sowing in succession, to pick leaves as you need them. Can also be grown under glass during the winter months to provide a complete season of harvesting.

Ideal for containers on the patio.

Featuring leaf Mustards, Golden Streaked and Red, Komatsuna, Mizuna and Sky Rocket.

An exciting blend of salad leaves that adds a range of colours, tastes and textures to your salads. The blend consists of Leaf Radish, Leaf Carrot, Wrinkled Cress, Kale Red Russian, Red Amaranth, Golden Purslane and Salad Burnet.

Sow in succession, pick leaves as required. Can also be grown under glass during the winter months to provide a complete season of harvesting.

A bright blend of coloured salad leaves, consisting of milder flavoured Pak Choy Golden Yellow, Choy Sum and Mizuna, plus a hint of spice from the Greek cress and mustard Red Frills. Delightful added to salads, sandwiches and garnishes

A really quick growing mix for those gardeners who cannot wait! Salad Leaves Speedy Mixed produces a tasty blend of tastes, textures, colours and leaf shapes for sandwiches, salads and garnishes. Quickest during the summer months when Speedy Mixed will produce 'salad leaves' in about 25 days, but can also be sown all year indoors.

A slower growing mix ideal for growing through the shorter days of winter providing a nutritious and tasty blend of brassica leaves. Salad Leaves Winter Blend offers a tasty winter salad with the many, healthy and nutritious benefits these leaves can bring.

Contents: Kale Scarlet & Blue Curled, Mustard Red Frills, Rocket Dentellata, Mizuna CN selection.

Chinese Leaves are quick maturing and form a cos lettuce type heart in under 9 weeks. Plants are very slow to bolt, so stand well over a long season. Use as salad leaves as you would a Romaine lettuce or as a full heart for salads, stir fries and as a cooked vegetable.

Superb quality and garden performance without bolting.

Mature heads can be cut and stored in a frost free shed.

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