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Salad Greens

Lettuces and Asian Greens:
Sow September to March in garden beds, also April and August in greenhouse, harvest all year by picking individual leaves or harvesting whole lettuces  
Varieties used:  
Mostly mixtures containing green and purple lettuces and Asian greens, e.g. cos, mignonette, frilled, speckled, buttercrunch, tree, rocket, tatsoi, mizuna, radicchio, rabbit ear  
Sow directly, wherever there is space in the beds, thin out after germination to 15cm between plants.  

Corn Salad:
Sow March to April, harvest May to August  
Sow directly, wherever there is space after main harvest  

Mustards:
Sow September to April, harvest all year by picking individual leaves or flowers for salads  
Grow individual mustard plant throughout gardens as insectary plants, harvest individual leaves for salads  

       

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