Salad - Not Just for Summer
Can I Dig It? is made by:
- Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
- Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app.
Watch Huw Richards’s video, 12 Crops to Sow NOW to BEAT Rising Food Prices
Pippa recommends following Jamie Walton of @nettlesandpetals.
Bolt resistant varieties include
- Lettuces: Salad Bowl Red and Salad Bowl Green from Premier Seeds Direct
- Spinach: Mikado
‘Magentaspreen’ is the crazy-sounding disco tree spinach.
Read more about Stephen Barstow, the extreme salad man.
Varieties that can keep you in lettuce all year long:
‘How to Grow Food’ by Huw Richards and Sam Cooper includes some interesting ‘alternative’ salad recipes.
