Could You Please Tell Me What Salad Vegetables You Grow In Your Garden?
Posted by admin on February 26, 2010
I am especially interested in English cucumbers and other kinds of cucumbers that you find delicious.
In addition, do you grow lettuces ….. especially the little ones people are using.
Cresses?
And herbal flowers?
Thank you very much!
I grow cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, carrots, squash, onions, green onions. I also use to make pickled cucumbers & onions like grandma used to make. Very refreshing on a hot summer day. Be sure to mix this together at least 24 hrs before you want to serve it as it needs to sit overnight.
Pickled Cucumbers & Onions
2-3 cucumbers sliced
1 red or white onion sliced & separated
salt & pepper to taste
2-3 T sugar
Place all of the above in a quart canning jar. Fill canning jar about 1/3 full with white vinegar the rest of the way with water. Shake well to mix sugar. Chill overnight.
For salads I like to grow the basic things like lettuce, tomatoes, spring onions, radish and cucumber.
I like Marketmore cucumbers as they are suitable for outdoor growing, and are only 10 to 15 cm long – just enough for one or two.
I grow cress indoors with mustard.
I also grow lots of herbs including chives, and one of my favourites for the flowers is borage, a beautiful blue.
tomatos and carrots for this bunny
Houston area.
I grow Burpee Burpless cucumbers and they grow great.
It’s too hot for lettuce now, so I’m not expecting lettuce to do well, but I’ve had luck in cooler weather with meuslin and greens.
Radishes, green beans, any beans or peas do really great.
I hear sweet potatoes are easy to grow, but I haven’t tried them yet.
Herbs do very well in pots. Cilantro is picky. Oregano, rosemary and chives are great.
Peppers are great too. They do well before and after the summer heat sets in. In really hot weather, they take a siesta. Doesn’t everybody?
my mother grows crunchy cucumbers, delicious HUGE tomatoes, lots of herbal plants, green bell peppers, eggplants and she even grows green beans. All these vegtables have great tastes especially in a vegtable salad.
i know this has nothing to do with your question and i’m sorry but if you grow tulips you can eat the petals in a salad… i preffer to grow flowers over vegetables…
Runner beans is all i do.
Spring onions.
little gems. tomatoes in some parts of england do well. carrots in pots and i have grown potatoes they were great. AND LEEKS
geeeez! your havin a laugh.
I don’t grow any vegetables at all!
Cucumbers of any variety, tomatoes and bell pepper are the most easily grown. Lettuce tends to be a bit contrary. Radishes are also easily grown in home garden. Zucchini is also a nice vegetable for a salad or to use for dips.
Grow baby spinach, maybe carrots. And when you eat the yummy salad, put dried cranberries on it.
a breed called burbless is quiet poplar cucumber to grow out side in the UK radish beetroot tomato and a land cress grow in a pot is very good celery but that takes a lot of work carrots and to avoid root fly try growing them in a pot to Little gem is the lettuce you are asking about flowers could be nasturtiums i also grow lavender and rosemary which i add to cakes lovely Victorian idea
i grow birds eye chillies in my window, and they are doing really well!! Cant wait to get the mexican chillie going
i grow tomatoes zuccine beans asparagus also have plum tree
You can grow them all and quite easily. Most baby leaf lettuces are very easy just plant while it is still cold and harvest all spring and early summer. They die in summer heat in many places. Plant again late July or early August for Fall crop.