Growing salad in the cupboard?

FORCING CHICORY & TASTING WINTER SALADS

Salad isn't just for summer. This week we have been tasting different kinds of winter salad.

We tasted: giant red mustard (very hot!), sorrel (very lemony), rocket (very peppery) and chicory (very bitter). Nearly everyone tried all of the leaves but some people needed a drink from the water fountain afterwards
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We wrote down the names of the salad and then got on with forcing chicory which is a very tasty winter salad that puts up with cold and wet (you may find the odd slug).

We had some chicory dug up from a summer sowing. It looked like this. We trimmed it and put into a pot of earth. We put two pots under a tarpaulin in our potting shed cupboard. When it grows in the dark it grows quickly and makes paler less  bitter leaves. What will it look like next week?

Maybe it will look a bit like this picture.

We had time to draw a great big chicory leaf and make labels for our pots.