Summer salads

I've seen them in supermarkets but had no idea what they were for or whether you ate the whole thing or what

Had the first radishes grown by my grandson yesterday. Next weekend there should be some red lettuce leaves as well.
My grandchildren love salads, as many different vegetables as I can get with added nuts and pulses. They can put their own dressing on as the youngest does not like anything but mayonnaise and my grandson does not like that but he likes olive oil.
We go round the plants and decide which herbs we are going to have every day.
Those who do not like salads, would you have liked them more if you had grown your own?

By the way, I did not know there was such a thing as summer salads, as you can buy most ingredients all year round now.

All these great ideas are a far cry from the days of my childhood when a salad was a few lettuce leaves with tomatoes and, if you were being adventurous, a slice or two of cucumber! I will take on board some of the recipes you've all contributed here - especially Mamie - as long as there's no beetroot (hate it) or avocado (hates me) involved.

When you grow most of your own veg, winter salads tend to have more cabbage in them, carrots, onions, apple, red cabbage, leeks, kale, spinach beet, anything that stores well, and it's often grated. Summer salads with all the baby leaves feel lighter. I know you can buy them out of season but either they have been grown in huge polytunnels and are tasteless (tomatoes are like water in the winter), or they have been flown from thousands of miles away and are quite elderly. When you have grown a cucumber and have stored it for almost a month, and you buy one and it goes off before the week is up, it tends to put you off buying supermarket veg.

Lots to try here