This is my 2nd batch of Mr Fothergill's Mustard Colour & Bite salad leaves of the year. I grew it last year too and it's one that the wife and I love.
It has a very tasty, sweet, almost mustard and honey flavour that grows very quickly and doesn't seem to be of interest to slugs and other pests and at under £2 a pack, it's one I'd recommend to all.
My veg planter is already started to come to crop. It's overflowing with mustard bite salad leaves and I've collected my first radishes (see next post).
Today I planted another batch of seeds including another section of Mustard Bite, Purple Haze Carrots, Lambs Lettuce and Hilds Blauer Radish.
I was walking down the seasonal aisle of my local Asda and spotted this 9 compartment veg planter for £4.50! I was thinking about planting some veg today so this was the perfect option.
It's around 1m x 1m and 25cm deep, opened out it was bigger than I expected. I filled it with all the compost I had - 100 litres - but it could've easily taken more.
For now I've planted in 5/9 sections, leaving the rest open for planting more in a bit to keep the crops coming!
My choices here are: Mustard Bite salad leaves (which we very much enjoyed last year), Atlas Carrots (a small round variety), Bright Lights Radish (small, round and in an assortment of colours), French Breakfast Radish (sub shaped veg that are red and white in colour and very tasty) and Apache Onions (a deep red variety of spring onion).
Finally because this is on the ground and there's salad leaves involved, etc, I put a thin border of the bark mulch around the outside edges to deter slugs.
