22 June 2009

salad days

This is the first year we've grown lettuce on our allotment plot:

Now we just need to master successional sowing, as what seemed like a big crop a few weeks ago is fast disappearing!

At least it's being eaten by us and not the slugs...at least so far...

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  1. rachel23 June 2009 at 08:50

    It's the same thing with me, including with spinach and radishes; good intentions, every year, sometimes a second sowing after a week, then total amnesia....

    What has worked for me though, is planting salad leaves in the now-redundant (since we got wheelie bins) black recycling box positioned at the back door. Easy to remember to water, re-sow, cut-and-come-again moments before a meal, and to my surprise, a strip of copper tape round the box seems to be working, as the snails haven't bothered with it at all. Not exactly allotment gardening, but handy!

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  2. Ali23 June 2009 at 12:09

    Looks good - not a nibble missing out of those leaves!

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  3. dottycookie23 June 2009 at 12:31

    I need to re-sow in the garden too. We're just trying Cos this year and it's gone a bit nuts!

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  4. Gina23 June 2009 at 13:11

    I've managed a second sowing of lettuce and radish and now seem to have forgotten to continue. Your lettuce look fabulous and healthy.

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  5. Lynn23 June 2009 at 15:20

    Your lettuces look beautiful! We can't really re-sow here because it's too hot now for salad greens to be happy. Ah, well -- bring on the tomatoes and corn on the cob!

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  6. Unknown23 June 2009 at 17:53

    oh lettuce... the stuff grows like weeds. I'm turning into a rabbit...

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  7. Gigi23 June 2009 at 18:13

    We planted lettuce in pots on our back porch in February and they produced all the salads, etc. we needed for months! It was great & I loved not having to buy those expensive bags of organic lettuce which usually go bad before we finish them off. I'm afraid it's too hot here to resow now, but maybe I'll try again in a shadier place?

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  8. Darlene23 June 2009 at 19:04

    How rewarding and I bet it tastes delicious! D x

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  9. dragonfly23 June 2009 at 21:21

    That reminds me, I need to sow some!

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  10. Alexis23 June 2009 at 23:34

    Lovely lettuce!

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  11. colleen24 June 2009 at 00:42

    That looks v good. I am a big fan of oak leaf though, like you, I find tsuccessional sowing a bit of a challenge.

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  12. Anonymous24 June 2009 at 17:41

    Fresh lettuce is really mouthwatering and seems to go with everything :)

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