Salad Plants
Starting your own salad garden means that you’ve got fresh and healthy ingredients when you need them, just steps away from your kitchen. All of our salad plants are sustainably grown in the UK without chemical pest control methods, so that you can be confident of getting healthier and tastier salads, juices, smoothies and crunchy snacks when you need them. No more washing pesticide residue off your lettuce, or soggy spring onions lurking in the bottom of the fridge - with our easy to grow lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and more, you’ll never buy a bag of chlorine-dipped leaves again.
Which salad plants should I choose?
How to choose what salad to grow? Should you focus on lettuce, cucumber, carrots, beets, tomatoes, herbs or leafy greens? The simple answer is grow them all, but if you’re a little pushed for space, the good news is that lots of crops, like tomatoes, spring onions, little gem lettuce and kale can all be grown successfully in pots. Group your salad pots on your patio or on a sunny windowsill, in raised beds or in a border with your dahlias - or if you really can’t decide, go for one of our ready made bundles.
Growers' tips
Salad crops are quick to grow and many can be harvested as ‘cut and come again’ leaves, including spinach, kale and lettuce. Just cut what you need on a daily basis and leave the rest to keep growing - you can’t get fresher than that. The main things to watch out for with salad plants are watering - too much and it can rot, too little and you run the risk of the plants bolting - and pest control. Unfortunately slugs find those leaves as tasty as we do, so you’ll need to protect young plants with cloches, cold frames or just constant vigilance.
Using your salad plants
If you love salad (and who doesn’t love salad?) you’ll want to establish a good rotation of tasty recipes and combinations to keep it fresh. Try fattoush with chickpeas, tempeh salad with plums, cobb salad or a kale, spinach and tofu combo for starters. Even better, invent your own, market it worldwide and be more famous than Caesar (whoever he was).
Got a part shaded garden? Not a problem for these versatile veggies...
- Easy growing, delicious tasting!
- Grows well in partial shade
- Cook up a culinary storm with your very own produce
- Features vegetables with a variety of exciting flavour profiles
Cool, crisp and fast growing
- Shiny dark green cucumbers
- Perfect for salads, garnishes, raita and juices
- Grafted plants for up to 75% more yield
- F1 variety for better performance and bigger harvests
Grow your own sweet and crunchy peppers
- Large, glossy red peppers bursting with sweetness and vitamin C
- Perfect for salads, dipping, roasting and stir frying
- Grafted plants for up to 75% more yield
- Grow on a windowsill, greenhouse or in patio pots
Grow your own chilli supply
- Three top varieties specially selected by our growers
- Keep it mild or dial up the heat - the choice is yours!
- Premium garden ready chilli plants to grow in pots, raised beds or in a greenhouse
Only the best, most colourful and hard to find veg
- Unique, colourful, delicious & hard to come by
- Includes award winners & exhibition favourites
- Harvest from June right through to autumn
- Nothing too difficult to grow in your average garden
The mellow yellow one
- Glossy yellow lantern shaped chillies
- Habanero flavour but make it mild
- Grow in pots or window boxes indoors or on a sunny patio
- Smoky citrus notes, ideal for salads and garnishes
The best veg, herbs and fruit to grow in your greenhouse
- Grow a taste of the mediterranean at home and save a packet
- Premium tomatoes, aubergines, cucumbers, peppers and much more
- Easy to grow with harvests from June to November
One of the world's hottest chillies
- Red chillies with a fruity flavour and fiery heat
- 1000,000+ on the Scoville scale
- Grow in pots or window boxes indoors or on a sunny patio
- Easy to grow and very productive
Superhero vegetables with everything going for them!
- The best vegetable qualities grafted into single varieties
- Incredibly easy to grow, great for beginners and experts alike
- Includes four of the most versatile cooking vegetables
- Healthier, more productive vegetables that are less susceptible to disease
Grow your own without the wait
- It's not to late to start your veg patch
- Extra large plants ready to crop
- Our grower's top performing vegetables
- Plant in beds, pots or allotments
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