Salad Leaves

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.

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Quick and easy to grow, a favourite salad garnish that can be sown all year round, and even outside.

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'.

Incredibly popular in the Orient as baby or mature leaves. The larger the leaf the hotter it becomes. Reliable and easy to grow, great in pots.

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.

An Italian favorite but also widely eaten around the mediterranean where its tangy, slightly bitter flavour is much appreciated. As the round heads mature they develop their beautiful red colouration.

Quick and easy to grow mix of leaves with different colours, textures and shapes. Taste varies from spicy to mild. Mesclun (a mix of small leaves) is a favourite salad in France and Italy.

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.

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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.

Keeps on producing a mass of fresh flavoured, deep green leaves. A late summer sowing will guarantee winter salads.

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.

A quick growing salad leaf mixture, ideal for sowing in containers outdoors throughout the summer, and indoors on a windowsill during the winter. Salad Leaves Cut 'n' Come Again is ready to cut from 25 days in summer and 50 days during winter.

Mixture contains: Mizuna, Salad Rocket, Red Mustard, Pak Choi, Red Russian Kale, Golden Yellow Chinese Cabbage.

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.