Salad Italian SEED COLLECTION

The ingredients for a full flavoured, spicy Italian salad. 5 varieties: Rocket (500 seeds), Lettuce Lollo Rossa (350 seeds), Basil Genovese (350 seeds), Radiccio Palla Rossa (350 seeds), Chicory Catalogna (350 seeds). Mixed salad leaves sown together and harvested young have always provided a traditional salad in France (called Mesclun) and Italy (Misticanza) and the 18th Century British gentleman would have had salad seedlings grown for his table. Now everyone can easily grown their own! A full flavoured, spicy salad with just the right hint of bitterness, perfect for complementing Italian cooking. Hardy annual.

When to plant: All year as required.
How to grow: Our salad packs may be grown and used in several ways - as versatile as you can get! Grow successionally every 2 to 3 weeks, liberally 0.25in (0.5cm) deep in rows 4in (10cm) apart with the seeds from each sachet mixed together, or sow as seperate rows of individual varieties, either way the leaves can be picked as required when 2-3in (5-7.5cm) high for baby leaf salads. Leave the plants in situ to continue cropping (called 'cut and come again'). Plants will regrow for up to 4 cuts. Alternatively, some seed can be sown this way at traditional spacing to allow to mature, full sized plants to develop, giving you an alternative to young 'salad leaves'. Or after cropping as baby leaves a few plants can be left to mature in the normal way. Spacing as below: Rocket - 6in (15cm), Lettuce Lollo Rossa 12in (30cm), Basil Genovase 6in (15cm), Chicory Catalogna 8in (20cm), Radicchio Palla Rossa 10in (25cm).
Harvest: All year as required.