New, colourful salad leaf innovation to add a sharp but pleasant taste and texture to mixed salads, when eaten young. Also makes an attractive 'dot' plant in the flower border. Ideal used in soups and sauces. Hardy Perennial but grown as an Annual. Flavour guide: Sharp but pleasant.

For salad leaves sow March-May outdoors. Sow thinly 13mm (½in) deep in drills 30cm (12in) apart in soil that has been raked to a fine tilth.

Thin plants to 7.5cm (3in) apart once big enough to handle. Thin once more allowing up to 25cm (10in) spacing for full size plants.

Harvest young leaves as required, picking only a few from each plant.