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Suppose to be salad but..
Mel Mcbride
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in Fruit & veg
My salad leaf seeds sprouted mid-march, so these should be harvest-able about now. The leaves feel a little waxy too, don't feel like salad leaves.
I'm not sure if maybe it bolted and this is why it looks like this, or if it's something else entirely. I've planted more seeds last month and the babies look the same as these plants did at the end of March.
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They look like brassicas of some sort. Would be better outside I should think.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi Mel
They don't look like any salad to me. Even too thick a stalk for something that has bolted and no flower head. 
They look more like tough stalked leggy brassicas to me. They don't even look like spinach.
If you have any seed left sow it outside or in a trough outside and see if it grows like salad, I doubt it. You might be able to plant it as a vegetable and see what matures.
I know my veg but for something to look like that after 3 months especially inside I'm puzzled.
Thanks Kef and nutcutlet
Kef I'm definitely going to keep growing, I'm really curious now lol
But I'm sending the other packet back. ! 
Hi Mel, does the packet list what's supposed to be in there?
Maybe next year's sprouting broc
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes Nut it does. There's a few: lollos rossa, biondi and black seeded simpson. There's quite a difference between them and mine.
Not lollo rosso for sure
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think you should have harvested the leaves weeks ago.
Sorry, but the fault lies with you not the seed company. You have allowed them to grow too large.
They don't look edible at all pansy, really waxy. Not very appealing.
The seed company who make them have confirmed they are not what it says on the packet. Rather alarmingly.. they did not ask me 1) where I got them, 2) the batch number or 3) if I would send them back to them.
I will NEVER buy their seeds again.
They look like a mustard-type leaf to me - often included in mixes of salad leaves, particularly ones with oriental-type leaves - usually ready to start using 3 weeks after sowing - use on a cut and come again basis .
Yours have just got way too big
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.