- Volunteer Salad Greens
We’re getting lots of volunteer lettuces and other salad greens this year. I’m transplanting some to the pea bed and elsewhere, but most we are just harvesting the whole plant where they are growing.
I talked about letting salad greens bolt and go to seed in a post last September: http://blog.cobrahead.com/2012/09/10/simple-seed-saving/
In addition to some lettuce seed which I saved and scattered throughout the garlic bed, a lot of the seed has sprouted in and around where the plants were growing last year.
Greens Transplanted Into the Pea Bed
I’m moving many of them to the pea bed. The lettuce really does well sheltered by the peas.
Volunteer Lettuce Ready to Harvest
We’re just harvesting little clumps like this for immediate consumption.
Volunteers are free and I’m making them and saved seed an integral part of my garden.