The oriental mustard leaves and wild rocket leaves that I planted back in February in the greenhouse are now cropping and giving a good salad portion each lunchtime.

It’s the start of a new system of perpetual salad that I’m going to try this year.  I’ve got 8 large deep trays that I’ve filled with compost and I’m going to successionally sow various salad leaves.  I’ve got these deep trays in large greenhouse-trays so that rather than watering them from above, which kicks the soil up, I can add water to the trays and it’ll be soaked up.  So…when I pick the salad…it doesn’t need washing – Bonus!  So far I’ve grown the oriental mustard and wild rocket as photographed and I’ve recently sown some ‘saladisi’ (a mixed salad) and some ‘blood veined sorrel’, to eat as young leaves too.  I’m hoping that with good timing I’ll be able to supply the family with fresh salad leaves all summer and into autumn.