Ubuntuberg Salad Seed Mix

Grow crisp cucumbers, colourful cherry tomatoes, fresh lettuce and peppery radishes for home-picked salads. This Ubuntuberg selection brings together Ashley cucumber, Bumble Bee Mix tomato, Blond de Paris lettuce and Sparkler radish. Start each crop in its preferred season for a rolling harvest.

Ready to pick fresh salads from your own garden? Follow our Salad Grow Guide for sowing, germination, thinning, support and South African seasonal advice.

Quick Grow Facts

• Cucumber Ashley: 10g raw seed: Approx 350 seeds
• Tomato Bumble Bee Mix: 12 seeds
• Lettuce Blond de Paris: 2g raw seed: Approx 1 300 seeds
• Radish Sparkler: 10g raw seed: Approx 800 seeds

Seed Form: Raw, unpelleted seed. Sow dry; no routine soaking, chilling or scarifying is needed. Follow the delivered lot labels. The listed quantities combine seed weights and a tomato seed count; they do not specify a common mixing ratio or promise equal numbers of plants.

Position and Seasons: Give cucumber and tomato full sun and frost-free warmth. Grow lettuce and radish in cooler weather, with light afternoon shade if needed as heat builds. The four crops will not necessarily germinate or mature together.

Cucumber Ashley

• Crop and Growth Form: Cucumis sativus ‘Ashley’; a warm-season annual vine. Train up a trellis or allow room to trail.
• Sowing and Germination: Cover seed about 5 mm deep. Allow 7–14 days in warm seed compost around 20–25°C; wait for soil to reach about 18°C before direct sowing.
• Spacing and Harvest: For trellised plants, use about 25 cm between plants and 150 cm between rows. Ground-grown vines need more room: at least 40 cm between plants and 160–200 cm between rows. The packet lists 65–70 days to harvest; pick firm, dark-green fruit regularly at about 20 cm long.

Tomato Bumble Bee Mix

• Crop and Growth Form: Solanum lycopersicum; indeterminate cherry tomatoes from the Pink, Purple and Sunrise Bumble Bee types. The twelve seeds do not guarantee equal numbers or all three colours. Provide a sturdy cage, stake or trellis.
• Sowing and Germination: Cover seed 5 mm deep in labelled modules. Allow 7–14 days around 24–29°C, then give seedlings bright light. Start under protection about 6–8 weeks before safe outdoor planting.
• Spacing and Harvest: The packet gives 45 × 60 cm; allow about 60 cm between supported plants and 90–120 cm between rows where possible for access and airflow. Harvest fully ripe fruit. The packet's 80–110-day planning range does not state its starting point, so it is not a fixed countdown from transplanting.

Lettuce Blond de Paris

• Crop and Growth Form: Lactuca sativa; a Batavia/crisphead lettuce forming a leafy rosette and firm head.
• Sowing and Germination: Cover very lightly, about 3 mm, and keep in the light rather than under a blackout cover. Allow 7–14 days around 15–20°C. Sow directly and thin, or raise small plugs.
• Spacing and Harvest: Allow about 30 × 30 cm for full heads. The packet lists 60–90 days to harvest; cut a well-formed head before heat causes bolting or bitterness.

Radish Sparkler

• Crop and Growth Form: Raphanus sativus ‘Sparkler’; a compact leaf rosette above a red-and-white, round storage root.
• Sowing and Germination: Direct sow 3 mm deep where the roots will mature. No special light treatment is needed. Allow 3–10 days around 15–24°C and give seedlings bright light after emergence.
• Spacing and Harvest: The packet gives 10 × 10 cm; a carefully thinned intensive row can use 3–5 cm between roots. Start checking roots about 20–35 days after sowing and pull promptly while crisp.

Why Grow This Variety

• Cucumber Ashley provides crisp, juicy fruit for snacks and salads.
• Tomato Bumble Bee Mix adds colourful mini tomatoes.
• Lettuce Blond de Paris contributes soft, light-green leaves.
• Radish Sparkler brings quick-growing peppery crunch.

Garden Uses

Use the mix in balconies, patios, pots or raised beds for home-grown salads and garden-to-table meals.

Growing Notes

• If supplied separately, use labelled rows, trays or pots so each crop gets its own sowing depth and season. Direct sow radish and preferably cucumber; raise tomato in modules. Lettuce can be direct sown or transplanted as small rooted plugs.
• If supplied as one physical blend, sow thinly in a labelled strip where radishes can stay to maturity, using a fine shallow cover. Place identifiable larger cucumber seeds at their own depth. Keep the surface evenly moist and thin promptly as seedlings become identifiable; do not transplant radishes kept for roots. One broadcast depth cannot suit every component equally well.
• Use fine, fertile, free-draining soil with mature compost. Keep the seed zone moist, not waterlogged. Move cucumber only as a young intact plug before roots become crowded; harden tomato and cucumber gradually and plant out after frost and cold-soil risk.
• Install supports before vines become tangled and keep them from shading the lettuce and radish. Bees help cucumber flowers set fruit; an early run of male flowers does not mean the plant has failed.
• Water at soil level in the morning and keep moisture even. Feed established crops according to soil needs and the fertiliser label; container crops need particular attention as watering washes nutrients out. Leave space for airflow and avoid wet foliage overnight.
• In suitable cool weather, sow short radish rows every 10–14 days and small lettuce batches every 2–3 weeks. Pick cucumbers and ripe tomatoes regularly, and do not leave ready radishes in the soil.
• If emergence is uneven, check each crop's temperature and sowing depth before resowing. Thin crowded radishes that make leaves but little root; plan the next lettuce sowing for cooler conditions if plants bolt. Wilting in wet soil needs better drainage, not extra water.

South African Sowing Windows

• Winter-rainfall Western Cape: Favour autumn through spring for lettuce and radish, with good drainage through wet winters. Start tomato under protection in late winter; plant out after cold, wet conditions ease. Direct sow cucumber in warm spring to early summer and irrigate through dry weather.
• Frost-prone interior: Use late-summer to autumn and late-winter to spring windows for lettuce and radish, protecting young plants from hard frost. Start tomato under cover 6–8 weeks before safe planting; put tomato and cucumber outside only after frost risk and cold soil have passed.
• Humid coast and KZN Midlands: Autumn and winter generally suit lettuce and radish better than hot, humid summer. Coastal tomato and cucumber windows can be longer, but colder Midlands gardens must still respect frost. Use airy spacing and morning watering.
• Hot-dry or subtropical interior: Favour the cooler autumn-to-spring months for lettuce and radish. Plant tomato and cucumber in warm spring or an early-autumn window where frost permits, avoiding peak heat during flowering. Mulch established plants and keep root-zone moisture steady.

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