Endive
How to Grow Endive in the UK Endive brings a pleasantly bitter edge to salads. Grow finely curled frisée for feathery leaves, or broad leaf escarole for substantial heads and autumn cropping. Both are Cichorium endivia, suited to beds or containers with steady moisture. Frisée and escarole Baby leaves or whole heads Container friendly Choose […]
Lettuce (Headed)
How to Grow Headed Lettuce in the UK Headed lettuces develop a heart that can be cut as a whole plant for the kitchen. Butterheads, crispheads and cos lettuces offer different textures and sizes. Sow small batches, give each plant room and keep moisture steady so the heads mature before heat or drought encourages flowering. […]
Lettuce (Loose Leaf)
How to Grow Loose Leaf Lettuce in the UK Loose leaf lettuce is a useful crop for small, frequent salads. Its open rosettes let you pick tender outer leaves while the centre keeps growing. Sow a little at a time, keep the roots evenly moist and replace tired plants with the next batch for a […]
Mizuna
How to Grow Mizuna in the UK Mizuna supplies feathery, mildly peppery leaves for salads and quick cooking. It grows readily in beds or containers and is especially useful when the weather is cool. Sow small batches, keep the roots moist and pick a few outer leaves at a time for repeat harvests. Quick leafy […]
Mustard
How to Grow Mustard in the UK Mustard can mean peppery leaves for a salad, larger greens for cooking or a crop of seeds for the kitchen. This guide concentrates on leafy Brassica juncea and white mustard, Sinapis alba, grown to maturity for seed. Choose the crop you want before sowing: a quick leaf harvest […]
Celery
How to Grow Celery in the UK Celery rewards steady moisture and a protected start. Its crisp leaf stalks take longer to develop than a quick salad crop, so plan summer watering before sowing. This guide focuses on self blanching and green stalk celery, Apium graveolens var. dulce. Traditional trench celery needs additional blanching work. […]
Chicory
How to Grow Chicory in the UK Chicory gives a salad bed colour and a pleasantly bitter bite. Choose the crop you want before sowing: crisp red radicchio, green sugarloaf heads or pale witloof shoots forced from roots in winter. Each belongs to the same broad group, but the route to harvest is different. Autumn […]
