It's Mid-November and I'm Still Picking Salad Leaves!

I find it hard to believe that in the middle of November I've still managed to harvest a reasonably respectable amount of salad leaves from the garden.  Here they are having been thoroughly washed, draining on a tea towel.  There were probably just enough here for one serving but I added them to half a bag of supermarket salad leaves so that there was enough for both of us. 

Just as well I picked them in when I did as this morning we have had the most violent hail storm, accompanied by gale force winds, thunder and lightening, and I think the few remaining salad leaves in pots have been well and truly shredded by the strength of the hale. 

Growing these salad leaves has been a revelation to me and I'm certainly going to up the ante next summer by a) sowing them much earlier than the end of June and b) having more pots planted up so that I can get a really good rotation system going with them.  There really is nothing nicer than home-grown produce is there?

Comments

[sharie]

Have you not had any frosts yet? We have had a few hard frosts in the last couple of weeks and its killed off a lot of our plants (but sadly the not the weeds).

Hope you manage to find some more salad and the rain hasn't done 'em all in!

[Jennifer]

It looks scrumptious. We grew salad leaves this summer and they were fantastic, way better than store bought ones. Only problem was we needed a lot more to have enough for all six of us. I will definitely be planting more, and more often.

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