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There are also French traditional recipes with cooked lettuce. Lettuce soup and French style petits pois (peas with onions and lettuce). Never had either of them, clearly not from my corner of France, haha!

Hope you had fun with your seed parcel, Galina! I've always been intrigued by the moon phase growing. At the moment, my style is more "I've got a few hours available and it's not raining" but I hope to give it a proper go one day.

How are the seed snails going? I think we need to see some pictures

Never heard of cooked lettuce myself.  But yes, it is a thing,  as a quick google for recipes shows. Here is Viennese cooked salad.

https://www.ichkoche.at/wiener-kochsalat-rezept-3136

You have been very patient! I'm very pleased you get to enjoy browsing at last.

The Weiner Maidivi lettuce sounds fascinating.The German seed supplier suggests that in the Austrian tradition with which it's especially associated,the lettuce is cooked. Is this a well established tradition do you know, Galina or Vetivert?

Got my seed package home safely and had a first good peak.  I am overwhelmed.  Thank you everybody so much.  Look at these treasures.   

As it is a 'greens day', according to the moon calendar, lettuces will make the start of sowing for this year.  Rouge Grenoble has been on my wish list for a while as has Wiener Maidivi, which despite the name, is not an endive!  This is going to be a spectacular garden.  Everybody thank you so much.

Much sorting and entering into my databases for the rest of the day.   

That's my mistake. For some reason I was convinced that it's a climber and thought I'd grown it as a climber. I've recently realised that's not so and is just one of those quirks of memory, but I failed to remember that I needed to change it on the base! Now corrected.
Apologies to Garrett who had it correctly listed.

The bean Merveille de Piemont is listed as a climber in the airtable base, just double checking whether this is accurate? As a bean with the same name is commonly known as a dwarf.
Cheers

It will be interesting to see how we fared at the end of the season!

Congratulations on your lights, Garrett. For me, they rescue this time of year as I love watching early seedlings develop, and they make an early start much more possible.

I have made my first seed snail, not beautiful but hopefully functional! It's for early peas. I watched one video which showed that with peas there can be a problem with tendrils intertwining and making rolling out difficult. I left a collar with the aim of lessening that effect and hope to plant them out before they get too tall.  It will be interesting to see how the method compares with both guttering and module trays for pea sowing. I crammed 40 seeds into my snail as they were old seeds and probably would have patchy germination. I would usually sow 40 seeds into half of a 40 module seed tray (2 to a module) so the difference in space taken isn't huge. But all very interesting and the root development might well be a big plus.
Looking at my snail again I think the top elastic band might be too tight. I might well replace with some sticky tape.

Sorry m o r e  seed spiral videos;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IXPVQRxiO0

I have used bubble wrap for the spirals but I like Polyfoam , compost bags work too.