Over 50 lucky people could, by tomorrow evening, be eating a delicious fresh salad from Hackney. Yes! 2011 has really begun in our land of salad harvesting. Today we picked and packed what seems like a goodly amount of leaves for this time of year. Much of it came from the polytunnel at our Clissold Park site, where the miners’ lettuce has sped forth from its winter slumbers and has amazed Pip and I with its abundance.
In fairness, we could have been picking all through the winter months in the tunnel, but it doesn’t make too much sense to harvest such small amounts. Now we are staggering the amount we harvest of the miners’ lettuce to ensure that there is a consistent supply over the coming weeks…much as its succulent leaves are super tasty, no one wants a whole bag of the stuff (or do they?).
In the bag this week, you’ll also find may king and lattughino lettuce, pancalieri endive and salad rocket, the latter of which has done amazingly well outside at our Springfield site.
See how the salad rocket grows! Fleece flung back for harvesting…
Rainbow chard is giving us slim though colourful pickings and we flavoured it up a little with the freshness of leaf celery.
The leaves are slightly bitter this time of year, but man, to have salad again is such a treat!
The sun came out just for the occasion, celebrating the start of our harvests…
