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Spring Mix, Mesclun
Mild, juicy greens for salad mix. This is much the same blend you'd find in salad boxes at the store, but much fresher because you grow it yourself. In addition to several lettuces, possible ingredients include mild greens like mizuna, tatsoi, bekana, endive, or mild (Astro) arugula. Baby leaves may be cut with scissors and will regrow once or twice. Twisting off the outer leaves will enable faster regrowth and more harvests. Learn how here. Plants may also be spaced further apart and grown to full maturity if desired. Choose your own harvesting style. Packet contains 600 seeds.
The mix in this packet is a basic salad similar to what is generally sold as spring mix, but a couple of items are not included because they need to be grown separately. Most Spring Mix in stores includes Rainbow Chard. I have not included it here--it doesn't play well with others and should be grown by itself. But chard is a worth planting--it can be cut over and over all season. Baby spinach is another item you might want to grow in cool seasons. Other items to consider are dill, cilantro, burnet, sorrel, lovage, young tips of basil, fennel, miner's lettuce, or spicy mustards.