Topic: Lettuce - what varieties ...

[busy_lizzie]

That's brilliant Terri, Thanks very much!  :D

EJ, Your "Little Gems" on their way!  :D

busy_lizzie

[saddad]

Lollo Rosso, Lakeland and All year round, now up and in the ground, we sowed some old red salad bowl, green salad, Liller and lobjoits but they wer old seed and we didin't get enough to prick out. Also got mixed salad leaves, mizuna, mibuna, rocket, red and green mustard, corriander (still to go in), lambs lettuce and some claytonia still hanging on from over winter. We have Land Cress which has weed status on one plot! Buckler leaf sorrel, self sown by the compost bins and Sacheval(?) large sorrel which is knee deep!  Our boys 16 and 13 are salad monsters if it has bite, try getting them to eat supermarket lettuce! ;D

[Mrs Ava]

[supersprout]

They actually look better in the rain, don't they?  8)

[Mrs Ava]

What...the weeds?  Thanks to the rain I didn't get that far up the plot.  Friday I will get them weeded.

[redimp]

Webbs Wonderful
Salad Bowl
Aussie Yellow
Little Gem
Lollo Rosso
Winter Density
May King
One I can't remember ???

[Doris_Pinks]

just been down teh g'house to check on mine and the bloody slugs have eaten 2 trays full :'( :'( :'(

[wattapain]

just been down teh g'house to check on mine and the bloody slugs have eaten 2 trays full :'( :'( :'(

Oh you poor thing - I HATE SLUGS
One year I lost all my lettuces to the d**n things.
now  I always sow them in cells and plant out when they are quite big.
I also plant a few in troughs on the patio.  Love to watch them growing every day  ::)
But I also use nematodes in the small back garden area - ( too expensive to do the lottie though)

[Doris_Pinks]

These were trays of individually sown jiffy "7"s!! booooooo hoooooooo  mind you I got the rotten s*d and it is now an ex slug!!!! ;D  ;D  ;D

[jennym]

Slugs - amazing how high they can climb, found one in the top shelf of plastic mini greenhouse the other day, it too is an ex-slug. ;D

Lettuce varieties growing:
Batavian lettuce (like a semi iceberg) Blonde a Bord Rouge, bought whilst on holiday in France and the packet is in it's 3rd year. Jolly nice one, reliable.
Frisby - first year of growing, seeds were given to me by a neighbour
Red & green salad bowl mixed - a freebie from somewhere, but always grow these, and currently eating them.

Also, not strictly lettuce, but eating now: Giant Red Mustard, Mizuna and Pak Choi.

[supersprout]

So sorry to hear two whole trays got slugged DP  :'( Why don't they explode half way through the first tray ??? Hope you can re-use the jiffies, I just have with beetroot seedlings that were pigeon'd ;)

[CityChick]

Had a very satisfying moment 1st thing this morning: throwing all the slugs and snails I could find in the garden over the fence.... to the waiting chooks!

Revenge, for munching on my plants, was sweet

[mat]

Had a very satisfying moment 1st thing this morning: throwing all the slugs and snails I could find in the garden over the fence.... to the waiting chooks!
Revenge, for munching on my plants, was sweet

me thinks I need some chooks  ;D

mat

[grawrc]

This evening's crop. :) :) :) :) Yum.

[saddad]

I' ve just been out harvesting Molluscs, twilight on a damp evening and a hard surface, music to my ears!!!!

[busy_lizzie]

What an impressive cropo Grawrc!

Terri, I received the buttercrunch seeds this morning - Thanks so much! I am off to sow them now.   :D busy_lizzie

[loulou]

iv doing this year  not very existing i know  i think ill go mad with the colours for next year and try some different types
crisphead
cos
all year round