Mark Diacono

Microleaves

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A Year at Otter Farm

By Mark Diacono

Published 2014

  • About

Rocket micros

  • Site Seed compost
  • Sow All year
  • Harvest All year
  • Notes Coriander good plucked from the soil - the roots have a lovely intense flavour
MICROS ARE A REAL TRIUMPH of flavour and pleasure over heft. Grown to just 5-6cm, with only the first leaves showing, they have an intensity of flavour far beyond their fully-grown selves.
Rocket, radish, fennel and coriander, in particular, are the ones I grow most of. Each has its own characteristic flavour, yet more intense and cleaner as a micro than at the size it’s usually harvested.