Green fingered, me?

This is what I’m growing currently, more of a reminder to me really before I forget what each struggling, weakling green plant is -

Autumn – Winter ‘08

• Green and red frills mustard - salad leaves
• Lolla Rossa - salad leaves
• Texel greens - thought in farming circles as pheasant feed (yuck), produces tasty mild mustard leaves great for salad and stir fries. Very fast growing and very frost hardy. Treat as a cut and come again plant.
• Beetroot - grown with Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall’s Beetroot Brownies in mind Currently being pulled up by the pigeons.
• Winter Purslane - very nutritious (and very pretty I think), a cup of winter purslane at only a mere 7 calories will provide you with 11% of daily vitamin A and 15% of daily vitamin C. Can be picked as required from November through to March.
• Corn salad - also known as lambs lettuce
• Spring onions
• Little Leprochaun - salad leaves
• Giant Red Mustard - if the leaves are left to grow lage they get extra spicy (ooh!), their colour becomes more vibrant as the weather gets colder. Keep well watered to prevent premature bolting. Pick leaves as required.
• Tatsoi - a very hardy Chinese leaf, when mixed with other greens it enhances flavour and nutritional value.

Information from Rocket Gardens