Green Leaves

Growing your organic salad greens may be a good way of ensuring a daily supply of fresh, green vegetables from your house. Many salad leaves are often picked from as short as four weeks after germination and lots of varieties are often grown throughout the year.

Eating food fresh and raw is that the best way of ensuring maximum nutrient value and growing

your own organically ensures you recognize what has been added to the plants during the

expansion cycle.

Many vegetables make excellent salad leaves and are commonly used for this purpose.

Some plants like beetroot, spinach, and Bok Choy are often picked young then left

for the remaining leaves to develop to be used in cooked dishes. The leaves of beetroot also

can be cooked.

Growing during a hothouse may be a perfect option for young salad leaves because they're

picked young. A hothouse helps to guard them against becoming excessively dirty and protects

them from pests and disease and makes picking easy. Punnet holding tubs (usually hold

around eight punnets) are ideal for growing young salad greens.

A good quality organic potting mix should be used otherwise you can make your potting media.

Some of the simplest salad greens to grow yourself are:

Rocket

Rocket may be a great salad green adding texture and a slight tang to your salad. Rocket grows

relatively quickly in most environments.

Beetroot

Beetroot leaves are an honest source of nutrients and taste great in salads. They also add color

and a country look to typically green salads.

Spinach

A good source of Iron and other Nutrients. Spinach is one among those vegetables often not

thought of to be used in salads but they're an excellent addition.

Pea tendrils

I must admit I used to be surprised to once eat a salad with Pea tendrils. I had never considered

them an option or maybe edible. Pea tendrils are the young shoots of peas picked from the ideas

of the plant. they ought to not be overlooked for adding an excellent taste to salads.

Bok Choy

Bok Choy (or Chinese Cabbage) is increasing in popularity around the world. The young leaves

of the Bok Choy are excellent in salads. Bok Choy may be a member of the Brassica family.

Lettuce

Lettuce forms the bottom of most salads. Loose-leaf varieties are best for salads with the

curly-leaved varieties being the simplest pick. Of course, other sorts of lettuce including

healthy varieties also are ideal.

All of those can grow well during a hothouse environment also as directly within the garden. If

the long-term intention with beetroot is to reap it as a vegetable it should be planted directly

within the ground. Young leaves grown within the ground should tend an additional wash before

using in salads.

Eric J. Smith may be a qualified Horticulturalist and Permaculturalist. Eric writes about his interest

in many areas of Environmental concern and brings into focus Changing Economic paradigms. Eric features a passion for Organic Gardening and Permaculture with a stress on the sustainable use of environmental systems.