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<h4>You're browser does not support iFrames - here is an exerpt of the content</h4> <a href="http://gardenerstips.co.uk/blog/flowers/vegetables-herbs/growing-salad-leaves-a-big-selection/">Click here to read the article in full</a> <p><a title="Lettuce varieties Bijou & Freckles " href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortoris/3786180056/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2464/3786180056_6e0d9d508a.jpg" alt="Lettuce - Bijou & Freckles" width="500" height="375" /></a></p> <p><strong>Salad</strong> is a diverse name covering any of a wide variety of dishes including, green salads, vegetable salads, salads of pasta, legumes, or grains; mixed salads incorporating fruit and fruit salads. They include a mixture of cold or hot foods, often including raw or sometimes cooked <a title="vegetables" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/vegetables/">vegetables</a> and/or fruits.<br /> Alternatively ‘Salad’ is any green plant or herb used for such a dish or eaten raw so that is the part we will concentrate on.</p> <h2><strong> Leafy Salad Plants</strong></h2> <p><strong>Lettuce</strong> is available in many varieties with popular types like Cos, Butterhead, Crisphead, Lollo, Oak leaved or loose leafed. The coloured varieties above are called Bijou and Freckles. Buy a mixed packet of seeds and eat young seedlings as a way of thinning out crops.<br /> <strong>Chicories</strong> are popular in supermarket mixes and easy to grow for summer-winter supplies, try Red Hearted or Sugar Loaf Jupiter F1. Hugh Ferrnley Whittingstall explains ‘the pale green-white, tight little missile-shaped leafy vegetable, not the blowsy, tangly, frizzy salad leaves that share its name. There is plenty of confusion here: what we call chicory, the French call endive; what they call chicorée frisée, we call curly endive. The Belgians, with pragmatic Flemish accuracy, call it witloof, or white leaf.’ so I hope that is clear there will be a test at the end. Thompson Morgan sell half a <a href="http://www.thompson-morgan.com/plants1/search.html?section=all&search=chicory">dozen varieties</a><br /> <strong>Endive</strong> with broad leaves or curly leaves are good and crisp and can be used as cut and come again salads. Indivia D’Estale A Cuore Giallo can be grown from seeds .<br /> <strong>Cabbages </strong>are used in coleslaw and most varieties are good shredded in a salad. ornamenta cabbage can be eaten and the leaves add colour to a salad try Pink Beauty, White Christmas or frilled leaved Wave and Feather.<br /> <strong>Oriental salad </strong>leaves include Chinese cabbage, Pak Choi and Mustard spinach (Komatsuna). Most of these are members of the brassica family. Mizuna hybrids Tokyo Beau and Tokyo Belle are recommended as is Mibuna Green Spray.<br /> <strong>Leaf Beet </strong>and Swiss Chard is adaptable and young leaves can be picked for most of the year.<br /> <strong>Spinach </strong>is fine in a salad particularly if you rip up the leaves into manageable chunks.</p> <h2><strong>Strong Flovoured Leaves</strong></h2> <p><span id="more-6400"></span><br /> <strong>Rocket</strong> is an annual, prized for its spicy leaves, that responds well to cut and come again. You can eat the white flowers leaves or sprouted seedlings that were grown indoors on an inert base. Sown in situ from early spring until autumn, you can have crops most of the year. Yellow flowered Wild Rocket and Turkish Rocket are <a title="perennials" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/perennials/">perennials</a> with deeply serrated, pungent leaves.<br /> <strong>Watercress </strong>is a member of the <a title="nasturtium" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/nasturtium/">nasturtium</a> family native to fresh running streams. Plant rooted sprigs in soil alongside a running stream and crop lightly the first year. Can also be grown in a pot if you stand it in water and change the water every day.<br /> <strong>Sorrel</strong> leaves are often used in French salads and have a sharp lemon flavour. Large de Belleville is a broad leaved variety to try.<br /> <strong>White mustard </strong>or the hotter Black Mustard (Brassica nigra) have peppery leaves and the seeds make real mustard. Sow Cress 3 days earlier if you want a mix of Mustard and Cress.<br /> <strong>Dandelion </strong>leaves have been used for culinary purposes for centuries. Use young leaves in salads or blanch older leaves with an upturned pot.<br /> <strong>Fenugreek</strong> is a legume grown for its spicy seeds. Can be grown as cut and come again. The leaves are slightly curry flavoured and are useful for winter salads.<br /> <strong>Chrysanthemum greens </strong>(Xanthophalmum coronarium) or Chop suey greens are used in oriental cookery but the leaves should be used sparingly in a salad. If the flavour is too strong, blanch the leaves in hot water then cool before using in your salad.</p> <p><strong></p> <h2>Other Leafy Greenery for a Salad </strong></h2> <p>Salad Rape, Corn Salad<br /> Curly Kale, Purslane<br /> Leaf Amaranth and Mountain Spinnach (Orache)<br /> Stem Lettuce or Asapragus Lettuce</p> <p>For more ideas try ‘The Organic Salad Garden’ by <a href=" <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0711222045/richardpettin-21">“>Joy Larkcom</a><br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0711222045/richardpettin-21"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0711222045.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="Book Cover" /></a></p> <div style="display: none">VN:F [1.6.3_896]</div><div class="ratingblock"><div class="ratingblock "><div class="ratingheader ">Rate this Article</div><div class="ratingstars "><div id="article_rater_31440" class="ratepost gdsr-soft gdsr-size-24"><div class="starsbar gdsr-size-24"><div class="gdouter gdheight"><div id="gdr_vote_a31440" style="width: 0px;" class="gdinner gdheight"></div><div id="gdr_stars_a31440" class="gdsr_rating_as"><a id="gdsrX31440X5X0XaXarticle_rater_31440Xarticle_loader_31440X10X24" title="5 / 5" class="s5" rel="nofollow"></a><a id="gdsrX31440X4X0XaXarticle_rater_31440Xarticle_loader_31440X10X24" title="4 / 5" class="s4" rel="nofollow"></a><a id="gdsrX31440X3X0XaXarticle_rater_31440Xarticle_loader_31440X10X24" title="3 / 5" class="s3" rel="nofollow"></a><a id="gdsrX31440X2X0XaXarticle_rater_31440Xarticle_loader_31440X10X24" title="2 / 5" class="s2" rel="nofollow"></a><a id="gdsrX31440X1X0XaXarticle_rater_31440Xarticle_loader_31440X10X24" title="1 / 5" class="s1" rel="nofollow"></a></div></div></div></div><div id="article_loader_31440" style="display: none; width: 120px; " class="ratingloader article"><div class="loader flower " style="height: 24px"><div class="loaderinner" style="padding-top: 2px">please wait...</div></div></div></div><div class="ratingtext "><div id="gdr_text_a31440">Rating: 0.0/<strong>5</strong> (0 votes cast)</div></div></div></div>
