This year I have started to grow more veg and salad. It amazes me how quickly my small space is filled up, and how much we get through as a family - I am a long way off fully feeding the tribe.
My most successful planting has been my salad bar. Fed up of buying salad in plastic bags I started growing pea shoots on my window sill over the winter. I use these to add a little green to sandwiches and to top off dishes of Ramen. With a rolling planting of three trays there are always some available.
As the temperature has warmed up I have managed to plant almost enough salad leaves for our family. I think I still need a few more trays to keep us fully in the stuff, and have to plant on a rolling basis to keep a good stock. Cut and come again leaves are working quite well, but each time you cut them (and as a family of four we eat a whole tray in one sitting!), it takes about 3 weeks of growing to get a new crop.
With a bit more organisation and a couple more trays I should get to the point where we don't buy any more plastic bags of salad :)
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