Advantages: Easy to grow, many varieties available, tasty addition to sandwiches and salads Disadvantages: None
...the most nutritious form of lettuce and may also be used for cut-and-come-again seedling crops.
Lettuces vary from 10cm (4in) to over 30cm (12in) in spread. The cos types are about 25cm (10in) tall, others about 15cm (6in) high. Lettuces are primarily used as salad vegetables, but outer and older leaves may also be cooked or used in soups.
Lettuces are cool-season crops, growing best at 10 - 20 degrees celsius (50 - 68 degrees fahrenheit). Cool ... ...earlier.
Most types of lettuce may be grown as cut-and-come-again seedling crops, especially loose-leaf types, including the traditional European "cutting" cultivars, and some cos types.
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SnowiestElf 29.01.2006
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Advantages: Fresh all the year round Disadvantages: You may have to get your fingers dirty
...There is a lettuce for every location, in every season.
Lettuce will grow in conventional garden soil. Aspen states the obvious. Lettuce will also grow in a gro-bag, or in a pot, on any soil-based or soil-less compost. Lettuce will grow in a tub on the patio, in a pot by the back door, in a window-box, on a balcony, on a roof-garden, or even on the lavvie window-sill.
If you have none of these, you are an alien, and don’t deserve lettuce.
Cos ... ...are.
Want to grow lettuce out of season? Got a bright windowsill? Try Little Gem (a small Cos variety) at any time of year. Use young. The small young leaves are the tastiest anyway, and they may not heart in the winter months. Who cares? Use the young leaves and sow some more. It’s gotta be better than the limp, chemically-preserved supermarket pre-washed, bagged leaves.
Fancy a bit of colour? The red-tinged Lolla Rosso which you pay premium prices ...
Aspen 07.07.2002 (28.07.2002)
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Advantages: salad days are nearly here Disadvantages: Slugs may eat mine first
Lettuce 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 ... ...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 ...
mumsymary 13.03.2004
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