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Salad Leaves At Canara
Hi and welcome to the latest newsletter from our very special market garden, at Canara Farm, Mylor. Today Pete will be talking about a variety of lettuce grown for our local Gourmet Baby Leaf Salad mix.
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'' We have a dedicated field for the lettuce element of the gourmet baby leaf and we've got six varieties in this year. I like to grow at least two types of Batavia due to its nice frilly appearance and for being a very high yielding plant. We also have a green Butterhead lettuce called Hawking and this is one of my favourites for flavour. ''
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" From seed the lettuce can take around three months to fully grow. They are quite slow growing until the end of May and a growth flush in June is a common sight for us here on the Farm. You can grow these all year round if you want to but they will take longer to become ready for harvest in a poly tunnel or greenhouse. ''
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'' We also have a Spinach and Chard production and we are growing two types of baby leaf Spinach and two types of Chard. We have a long day summer Spinach called Helios and a darker coloured Spinach called Apollo. The Chard varieties growing include a lovely scarlet colour Bulls Blood Chard and a popular Red Chard. ''
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'' Apollo is more of a shorter day Spinach suitable for the Autumn and Spring shoulder. I've been experimenting this year due to the overcast weather in June following a quite prolonged May drought. I made the decision to stretch out the season into the summer months and with a bit of luck we had a lovely harvest of Apollo Spinach. ''
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We hope you have enjoyed reading about some of the varieties of lettuce growing at Canara farm and we look forward to sharing more with you. See you soon.