We have gone through a whole winter without recourse to any 'shop salads'. By this I mean those plastic packets of leaves, probably puffed up with carbon dioxide, that go slimy in your fridge within a couple of days. In contrast we have been picking our own mixed salads from the large greenhouse (thanks to a packet of seeds from my sister last autumn) which include Japanese mustard, rocket and several varieties of lettuce plus our home grown flat parsley.
Rocket will flower eventually - when in bloom it has a scent and slight ressemblance to wallflowers - so yesterday M and I uprooted some from the large greenhouse and planted red oak-leaved lettuce in its stead. The lettuce seeds were a freebie in the RHS magazine and it is a month since we first sowed them in small pots.
Prior to this, M was, as is her custom on 'snail patrol' throwing as many as she could out of the door.
Later today I will go down to make sure that our little lettuces have withtstood the depredations of any spare molluscs and are standing up.
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