The King is dead. Long live the King!

I’m trying hard to achieve seamless succession of the salad crops this year (hence the title of my post). I have already written several times about my lettuces, but now I want to introduce a couple of new members of the dynasty.

This is “Little Gem” – a classic Cos or Romaine type. Not mature yet, but beginning to heart-up:

This is “Fristina”, a frilly “cut-and-come-again” type.

This is something that will go well in a salad with those lettuces – Beetroot “Boltardy”.

The photo makes it seem quite big, but right now that beetroot is only the size of a large marble.

This is a tomato type that I have nicknamed “Japanese Purple”. The seeds were given to me by a friend. The wording on the packet is in Japanese (which I don’t understand), and the picture shows tomatoes that are distinctly purple in colour – hence the name.