Salad leaves that’ll add a pop of flavour

We’ve got red mizuna or green mizuna plug plants for you to grow (or both!) – it has a spicy flavour, not quite mustardy but not quite peppery. Somewhere in between, perhaps. But it is delicious and a really welcome addition to leafy salads.

This one is a real winner – the delicate wispy leaves can be sprinkled into salads to add a punchy mustard flavour that isn’t too overpowering, and the deep red adds colour too. If you keep cutting it regularly it’ll carry on for months.

For a mild flavour of celery, chopping a few Celtuce leaves into salads works really well. The leaves are fairly lettuce like, but they will grow for a long time without bolting so make a good lettuce substitution for hotter parts (!) of the country.

This is a perennial plant, so pop it in a permanent position in your plot (or in pots) as it’ll come back year after year. The younger leaves add a citrus kind of tang to salads, and the leaves look great too with the deep red veins. Very striking and very tasty!