Grow Your Own
How to grow super-speedy crops
The days of simply sowing a few rows of lettuces in the spring and summer are long gone. There is a huge array of quickgrow plants available now that produce leaves of many different shapes, sizes, colours, flavours and textures. Many can still be grown as individual plants and harvested as a whole, but increasingly more are grown as cut-and-comeagain crops, or harvested as baby leaves (also known as micro leaves). If you are feeding just one or two people you may find you become selfsufficient for salad leaves simply by sowing a seed tray or two of mixed leaves every couple of weeks throughout the year.