Autumn / winter salads and herbs

I’m experiencing some success growing salad leaves in pots in the greenhouse. Land cress and winter purslane sown in August are providing us with regular tasty leaves. Sowings in September are coming along more slowly, but they are growing. I’ll try some more sowings on a monthly basis and see how they go.

I have some spinach started, to grow as much as it can before it is too cold for it, and then to be consumed as a cut-and-come-again crop in early spring next year.

Some herbs have been moved in and more will be, to keep a few fresh leaves available through the winter. The French tarragon pot has a meal’s worth of new growth at the moment (although it will not like it once it’s really cold); parsley is happy at the moment. Chives and mint can also apparently be kept going.

So I’m hopeful that the greenhouse will be able to provide a few fresh leaves, and the pleasure of harvesting them, throughout the winter.