We trigger another of Pippa’s special interests: salad! From tiny shoots to tree leaves, we explore what salads can be, and how to grow them all year round. Plus, Pippa suggests a cheat to solve Zoe’s allotment predicament.

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Can I Dig It? is made by:

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app.

Watch Huw Richards’s video, 12 Crops to Sow NOW to BEAT Rising Food Prices

Pippa recommends following Jamie Walton of @nettlesandpetals.

Bolt resistant varieties include

• Lettuces: Salad Bowl Red and Salad Bowl Green from Premier Seeds Direct
• Spinach: Mikado

‘Magentaspreen’ is the crazy-sounding disco tree spinach.

Read more about Stephen Barstow, the extreme salad man.

Varieties that can keep you in lettuce all year long:

• All Year Round
• Marvel of Four Seasons
• Arctic King

‘How to Grow Food’ by Huw Richards and Sam Cooper includes some interesting ‘alternative’ salad recipes.

When funds are low, it’s time to get resourceful. Pippa shares her hot tips for food growing on a budget. Plus, Zoe receives a shocking letter and defense against rabbits gets real.

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Can I Dig It? is made by:

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app.

Listen to the related episode of Zoe’s other podcast:

• Ep. #224: Sewing When You’re Skint

Pippa recommends the coriander varieties ‘Calypso’ and ‘Leisure’ which are slower to bolt.

How to analyse and copy nature’s growing patterns to get every inch of use from your growing space. Plus, Pippa manages listener Kristin’s heartache AND Zoe enters her witch era during the recording!
Check out the Can I Dig It Podcast's Patreon page!
Can I Dig It? is made by:

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app.

Check out a food forest near you:

• Volunteering - Edible Landscapes London
• Research Site Tours - The Agroforestry Research Trust
• RHS Garden Bridgewater / RHS
• Developing the Walled Garden at Shugborough | National Trust