Get ready for salad season!
It’s nearly time for the clocks to go forward which means spring has well and truly sprung and summer time is nearly upon us. That means it’s time for veggie growers to get ready for salad season with some of the best tomato, salad and herb seeds from mail order seeds company Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk/).
The salad is such a versatile summer time dish – it’s ideal as a side to go with just about anything and is great as a main if you add a bit of chicken, some prawns or just heaps of vegetables. Now is the time to make sure your vegetable patch is going to give you enough salad staples such as leaves, tomatoes and onions all through the summer months and growing salad from seeds is easier than you may think.
First, there’s tomato seeds, veg seeds which will flourish on a window sill which gets lots of light or in a greenhouse. You can sow tomato seeds any time between January and April, simply fill some small pots with seed compost leaving a couple of centimetres at the top, sow in the seeds evenly, water well and cover the top with a plastic bag or cling film to make sure the compost is kept moist (remove the cover as soon as seedlings appear). When seedlings are around 10cm tall you can transfer them to another larger pot, although large tomato types are better grown in the ground or in bags. Germination takes around two weeks and your tomatoes will be ready for picking between July and August.
Salad leaves are a must for most salads and there is a huge array of leaves to choose from, iceberg, frisee, little gem, lamb’s lettuce, watercress, the list goes on! Depending on which salad leaves you plump for, you’ll be sowing them between March and September (we’ve clearly detailed sowing times on each of our salad seeds for sale on the Seeds by Post website). What’s great about growing your own salad from vegetable seeds is that you can cut away the larger leaves when they’re ready for eating, leaving the smaller, younger leaves to grow and come back to harvest later in the season. Grown and cut correctly, you can have a salad crop that keeps on giving throughout the summer.
Then there’s cucumbers, which like hot greenhouse conditions and need lots of watering, and remember to remove the male flowers as only the female ones produce cucumbers which aren’t bitter. Onions are cheap seeds which are also easy to grow and planted normally around March time. Again, there is a wide choice of onions, from sweet spring onions to more robust red and white onions. Top off your salad bowl by making sure you’ve planted enough herb seeds – handfuls of fresh parsley are great in any type of salad, oregano is perfect in Greek salad and coriander packs a peppery punch.
Now is the time to get your salad seeds in a row and you’ll be able to eat healthily and heartily through the summer months. Check out the huge range of salad seeds available at Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk/).
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