Mesclun

I just love being able to reach into the window box directly outside the back door and get some fresh salad greens and herbs. The mesclun pictured growing in the window box is Burpee's Fordhook Collection. It is a cutting mix of 'Red Salad Bowl', 'Black Seeded Simpson' and 'Lollo Rossa' lettuces, 'Early Treviso' radicchio, endive, arugula and mizuna, an Asian mustard. This cutting mix was planted in June and I've been harvesting, (cutting) small amounts for garnishes and fruit salad additions. I keep sowing the seeds throughout the season to have a continual harvest. There are some marigolds growing in there too. I directly sow those seeds, no need to cover with soil. They germinate in light. The petals are edible and the orange hue adds a great contrasting color to the leafy salad. The marigolds will be blooming soon. I'll follow-up with a picture.