let me brag and be big headed I usually do not buy a single lettuce from the shop after May. I usually successfully grow more than ample even giving some away. Let me not mislead you my garden is not massive. I think it is wonderful others might not. T hey might come and cut my meadow, spray it with pesticide grow things in straight lines. Not my kind of gardening.
Anyway back to lettuce
I sowed some lettuce seeds in the greenhouse last week these were the variety Salad bowl the red ones and the green ones .I think the mix looks pretty in a salad to serve for guests. The seeds merchants are Suffolk herbs these are organic seeds they costŁ1.09p per packet. I filled a seed tray with some organic potting compost then sprinkled some seeds thinly over it .I then covered the seeds with about 1.1/4 cm / ˝ inch compost. I watered them and left them in my greenhouse I shall keep them moist. Soon I shall be rewarded by tiny little plants when these have started to grow I shall sow some more seeds so I keep a succession of plants all the summer. When the plants are a decent size I shall thin them out and plant them individually in some modules I have recycled from some plants I bought last year. I shall then keep them watered in my greenhouse until they are a reasonable size to plant out and the weather is decent planting about 20cm 8 inches apart. . I may just keep one or two of the first ones growing to maturity in the greenhouse, as they will be quicker.
One of the reasons why I started them in the green hose was to keep slugs and snails away. Another year I seeded outside in my garden and the green leaves started to show, the next morning when I looked there were none. They had been slugged! Every last one. I will not use slugpellets, as it is bad for poisons to enter the food chain, The Slug eats pellet, dies frog/hedgehog/blackbird eats slug, and dies. I have used nematodes before they are good but too expensive. So preventative methods are better give the plants a head start
. There are many different Varieties of lettuce. One that I have used are salad bowl, it is not a hearting lettuce you just pick the individual leaves and takes a long time to go to seed. Excellent if you only want a leaf or two to add to a sandwich. I do grow other kinds of lettuce to ring the changes I also grow winter density a cos type lettuce and sometimes little gem the little gem is not so good went to seed quickly.
Did you know lettuce cooked with peas and thyme tastes wonderful? Does anyone know a good lettuce soup in case I grow masses this year?
Happy salad days-Mary Thank you for reading. Oh yes I also put some broad beans in and some basil and coriander. Oh its good time to get my hands dirty again.
Oh by the by about 150 frogs bonking in my pond this morning they are so noisy.!1
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