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shoot salad mix

April 3, 2012 by Christina

I’m so glad that I’m finally producing the shoot salad mix consistently now. A few folks on the island have told me that they’ve been looking for it in the produce cooler and have been disappointed because it’s never there.  From now on, it’ll be there!

It all depended on me ordering a new batch of purple daikon radish seeds when they became available. The last order I got had too high a percentage of green plants coming up in the mix and it was causing me grief.  In order for this lovely and delicious mix of textures, shapes, flavours and colours to work the way I want it to, I need that gorgeous purple radish colour with not too much of the green.

These rascals are a bit more special (aka expensive) than the pea and sun shoot seeds but I think they’re worth it.

The bag of new radish seeds arrived last week so I got down to planting right away.  There are always a few green ones but this is perfectly purply!  Not quite ready for harvest.  Another couple days.

Sweet little heart shaped leaves.
It’s a real joy to have such a nice long line of purple growing in the greenhouse again!

Shoot salad mix for my lunch in the garden yesterday.  Pea shoots.  Sunflower shoots.  Purple Daikon Radish shoots.  Delicious greens with a wee little spicy radish kick. So good in sandwiches too.  yummmy!

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  1. Joree says

    May 7, 2012 at 1:40 pm

    That looks delish! Where could I order those seeds? I am in the deep south in US.

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Christina’s Garden is a small market garden on Mayne Island, one of the Southern Gulf Islands located in the Salish Sea between Vancouver and Victoria, BC, Canada.

We put love and care into producing a variety of delicious and nutritious shoots and microgreens for year round sales to Mayne Islanders and folks in Victoria and on the mainland. We also offer a variety of home grown vegetables, seasonal flower bouquets and bedding plants for home gardens at our roadside stand and the Saturday Market on Mayne Island.

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Christina Pechloff

I like to grow food and flowers so we can use them to make our lives delicious and beautiful.

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