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Salad & Leaves

Leafy greens and fresh salad crops including lettuce, spinach and rocket. Fast growing, seasonal and ideal for small scale and allotment production.

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Weight Loss Salad Recipes That Actually Satisfy

Salads that actually help you lose weight need protein, good fat, and texture. They need to taste like something you’d choose, not something you’re enduring.

How to Grow Land Cress at Home

Land cress delivers the same peppery punch as watercress without needing a stream, surviving frosts that kill rocket and producing leaves all winter when fresh salad is scarce.

Balcony Gardening: Grow Food in Small Outdoor Spaces

Balconies behave completely differently from gardens when it comes to wind, weight, drainage and light. Adjust your approach accordingly and you can grow surprising amounts of fresh food.

The Spinach That Never Stops: How to Grow Perpetual Spinach

This leaf beet produces fresh greens from early spring through winter without bolting in warm weather, filling the hungry gap when true spinach has long since given up and gone to seed.

How to Grow Spinach

The variety you choose, when you sow, and how you manage moisture levels matter far more than having perfect soil or full sun, and it forgives the occasional bout of neglect.

How to Grow Micro Vegetables Successfully

The biggest obstacle to growing micro vegetables isn’t what beginners expect. Master the precise watering, light and temperature these tiny plants need during their 7-14 day cycle.

How to Grow Chicory at Home

You’ll spend months nurturing leafy outdoor plants, then bring roots indoors during winter to force those pale, crisp chicons that transform this into such a versatile crop.

How to Grow Chard and Eat the Rainbow

Chard tolerates unpredictable weather, forgives inconsistent watering, and keeps producing from May to the first frosts. You’ll get reliable harvests with colourful stems and versatile leaves.

From Seed to Salad Bowl: My Complete Guide on How to Grow Lettuce

Six weeks from sowing to your first harvest, lettuce gives you crisp, flavourful leaves that make shop-bought salads seem pointless, even in our unpredictable climate.

How to Grow Mizuna in Your Garden

This peppery Japanese salad leaf thrives where rocket bolts and forgives temperature swings that ruin lettuce. You’ll have fresh greens filling those tricky gaps between harvests.

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