Amid a shortage of salad crops, supermarkets all over the UK have taken to rationing their supplies of fresh produce and the unluckiest of us vegetable lovers have found ourselves faced with empty supermarket shelves. Adverse weather, high energy prices and Brexit paperwork have all been been blamed for the shortages, which could last for weeks.
But this moment of scarcity is also the time that seasoned food growers will be sowing their first seeds of the growing year so, although they won’t be ready to eat immediately, why not use this as an excuse to try your hand at growing some leafy crops of your own?
