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Winter greenhouse salad / veg

SupernoodleSupernoodle Posts: 954
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Hi, I'm planning to grow lettuce winter gem in my new greenhouse this winter.  Are there any other salads or veg that I can grow from seed in the greenhouse over winter? Plus perhaps you can suggest other lettuce varieties.

thanks

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,131

    Lambs lettuce (aka Mache, Corn Salad) - our most favourite salad leaf in the world - 

    http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/Vegetable-Seeds/Salad-Leaves/Salad-Leaves-Lambs-Lettuce-Jade.html#.U8DLCvldWSo  Yum Yum image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • SupernoodleSupernoodle Posts: 954
    Great, thanks Dove. Adding it to my seeds to order list. image
  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Spring onions, raddish, not really winter veg, but you could bring a couple of strawb plants in, to get an earlier crop. What do you like to eat noodle? image
  • SupernoodleSupernoodle Posts: 954
    So you can get a spring onion and radish crop in a greenhouse in the winter? Brill! We're big salad fans so that's ideal.

    Pansy, my son is being a nightmare. Trip in pushchair to newsagent will shut him up and sort me out. Thanks for the idea!
  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    pansyf, I have to drive for miles to get the Guardian; would you mind very much just typing out a list of what they suggestimage

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,131

    Link here http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/12/gardens-alys-fowler-winter-salad 

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    I'd challenge her assertion that most oriental greens won't be bothered by slugs - my Pak choi has been decimated - despite a gritty soil and the provision of delicious slug pubs image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    carrots?

  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    Thank you Dove; I'm not very fond of most of those mentioned, but Winter Density sounds good.image

  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    The local post office 100 metres away has just closed down last month and they only had tabloids. I like i paper when I can get it.image

  • SupernoodleSupernoodle Posts: 954
    Carrots? In greenhouse? Really? That sounds fun! Any particular variety? I assume babies? Should I sow in pots outside now and then move in in autumn? Or what?

    Does carrot fly exist in winter?
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