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en there are of course the stalwart winter salads. My current favourite salad is a mix of four leaves – about 50 per cent lettuce to provide the background bulk, 30 per cent punchy-flavoured cut-and-come-again leaves, scattered with a handful of herbs (15 per cent) and a few flowers (5 per cent) on top for good measure. The best lettuces for continual light, winter production are the soft, round lettuce 'Valdor', the loose-leaved varieties, 'Green Oak Leaf' and 'Cocarde' and a bit of crunch from 'Cancan' and 'Black Seeded Simpson'. For strong-tasting leaves, there's salad rocket (much better sown and grown now, than in the hot, dry summer), mizuna, winter purslane, and any of the hardier mustards – 'Green in Snow', 'Golden Streaks', 'Osaka Purple' or 'Red Frills'. Grow two or three of each of these two groups."
en there are of course the stalwart winter salads. My current favourite salad is a mix of four leaves – about 50 per cent lettuce to provide the background bulk, 30 per cent punchy-flavoured cut-and-come-again leaves, scattered with a handful of herbs (15 per cent) and a few flowers (5 per cent) on top for good measure. The best lettuces for continual light, winter production are the soft, round lettuce 'Valdor', the loose-leaved varieties, 'Green Oak Leaf' and 'Cocarde' and a bit of crunch from 'Cancan' and 'Black Seeded Simpson'. For strong-tasting leaves, there's salad rocket (much better sown and grown now, than in the hot, dry summer), mizuna, winter purslane, and any of the hardier mustards – 'Green in Snow', 'Golden Streaks', 'Osaka Purple' or 'Red Frills'. Grow two or three of each of these two groups."Link to the full article
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