The greenhouse salads have been getting a bit hot the last few weeks and have started to bolt (go to seed). While you can delay this for a while by picking off the flowering heads, once it’s started that’s it.
So I’ve been planting outside a number of pots of lettuce, rocket, mustard and Pac Choi that haven’t yet started to bolt in the hope of delaying it.
It’s not a disaster as I had sowed lots of salad anyway and there are new seedlings maturing nicely in a shady corner of the greenhouse.
It’s important to keep sowing, especially now, or you won’t have any salad for the autumn.
One of my all time summer favourites is basil and so I’ve been sowing masses while the weather is hot, because it is a Mediterranean herb and loves hot weather.
Early sowings in the greenhouse always seem a bit sporadic, but summer sowings quickly catch up and I’ll soon be mashing it into pots and pots of homemade pesto.
