lettuce has picked up - surprise surprise

[Nora42]

I have never had much luck with lettuce, I planted some cut and grow leaves a while back one variety of leaf is doing better than the others a frilly/spikey one, not sure what there's one green leaf and maybe a beetroot leaf. I also grew some round lettuce seed in plugs and silly me forgot them and they went leggy and limp. So i bunged them in the ground and thought nothing ventured nothing gained. Looked today and there are sroutings of fresh leaves the leggy ones are just as limp but I may have lettuce after all! that is of course if the slugs and snails stay away.
Nora

[Nora42]

[galina]

With lettuce it is important to keep sowing, bearing in mind that they need 24 hours cool after sowing (not much above 20C).  Lettuce goes over quite quickly and for continuity it is a good idea to keep sowing.  They transplant well.  But direct sowing is also possible, perhaps with a bottle cloche over a few seeds to keep the dreaded slugs away.  But inside a cloche they can get hot.

I find it easier to transplant lettuce and usually have some standing in a pot somewhere to fill a space that has become available after harvesting another crop.

[strawberry1]

me too re always having some seedlings handy. I never waste any as we have an old greenlife juicer and make very nice juice from a whole lettuce, apple and celery. We try to eat one little gem equivalent a day but don`t always feel like it, so we have the juice then.

I think I`ll sow an assortment tomorrow, little gem, lobjoits and paris cos. They hang around fine until transplanting. They also throw up new leaves if you just cut across and leave the roots