Monday, March 23, 2009

The First Salad Of The Year

Today Dad will be eating the first salad of the year, and better yet, it's 95% homegrown!


The salad consists of Little Gem lettuce (one lettuce, small/medium sized), a handful of Lambs' Lettuce and 2 leaves of Sugar Loaf chicory, all of which have overwintered under the polytunnel, as well as some sweet pepper (shop bought I'm afraid), a baby beetroot (one of last year's disasters - a year in the ground and it is still smaller than a golf ball), and for edible decoration some wallflower petals and a viola flower.


It's when we start eating stuff from the garden that it really feels like summer isn't that far around the corner.





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