Salad Leaves
A wide range of tasty leaves to grow over autumn and winter. You only need a little space to grow a lot of salad, and partial shade is fine too. All our plug plants come with a full growing guide to help you get started. Plants delivered from Sept to Mid/Late Oct.
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Land Cress (Autumn)
Original price was: £4.99.£3.74Current price is: £3.74.
(10 Plug Plants)If you love water cress, then this is one for you!
As the name suggests, the key difference is that land cress is grown on the land, not the water but the taste is very similar. If you grow it under cover (a cloche or fleece) or in a milder region you should be able to harvest it throughout winter. Pick the leaves throughout the season until the plant starts to flower in early spring. You will receive a full growing guide with the plug plants.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
In the kitchen: Land cress is perfect with a steak and fries, or pop into your salads for a peppery kick or add a handful to pasta dishes.
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Rainbow Chard – Bright Lights (Autumn)
Original price was: £4.99.£3.74Current price is: £3.74.
(10 Plug Plants)Colourful chard leaves for winter growing
Rainbow chard will bring a pleasing punch of colour to your veg patch during the colder months. It is a flavoursome and nutrient-rich vegetable that will produce leaves throughout the seasons. A good vegetable plant to try growing if you like spinach. Simply cut off the bigger, outer leaves at the base and more will keep growing from the centre. It will tolerate light frosts. You will receive a growing guide with the plug plants.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Bright Lights (organic*)
In the kitchen: The chard leaves are lovely wilted with a bit of garlic butter, and the stalks are great chopped up and thrown into paellas and risottos.
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Corn Salad (Autumn)
Original price was: £4.99.£3.74Current price is: £3.74.
(10 Plug Plants)This tasty salad leaf is perfect for growing in pots
You can get a great crop of winter salad leaves from these. Our top tip is to buy 2 sets and plant them really close together, then harvest every other plant and leave the remainder as cut & come again. A brilliant space saver and tasty too – a little like baby leaf spinach. Your plug plants will arrive with a full growing guide.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Verte De Cambrai (organic*)
In the kitchen: A delicious addition to winter salads
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Giant Red Mustard (Autumn)
Original price was: £4.99.£3.74Current price is: £3.74.
(10 Plug Plants)Easy to grow mustard leaves
This is a fabulous plant that stays reasonably small over autumn and winter before it suddenly grows quite large in spring. It’s great looking! Best used as a cut and come again leaf it has a really punchy, mustardy flavour. Add baby leaves to salads or treat larger leaves like spinach and wilt them down. If it’s mild you’ll get leaves right through from November to late Spring (and beyond!) Plant approx 30cm apart. There is a growing guide included with the plants.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Giant Red (organic*)
In the kitchen: Cut mustard leaves young for a baby leaf salad or leave to mature to use in stir fries and stews.
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Spinach – Perpetual (Autumn)
Original price was: £4.99.£3.74Current price is: £3.74.
(10 Plug Plants)A brilliant autumn grower
Producing tasty spinach leaves for you throughout the seasons, as it grows simply cut the bigger outer leaves off at the base and it’ll keep producing more and more. As long as the slugs and caterpillars don’t get to it, it’ll carry on for ages. Planted in autumn, you can hope for a harvest from late November onwards depending on the weather. The plug plants come with a full growing guide.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Perpetual (organic*)
In the kitchen: You can either cook the spinach leaves making a delicious addition to a wide range of dishes, use the baby leaves in salads or add to smoothies or juice.