As a follow on from the tomato thread -
I'm growing
Pinokkio
Little gem
Lobjoit's
Buttercrunch
Salad Bowl
Red Salad bowl
Red Fire
Oak Leaf
Lenta a Montare - from Seeds of Italy
Oriental salad leaves 'nice 'n' spicy (freebies)
Even more of a selection than the toms ;D ::) 8)
Terri
Lollo Rosso
Forellenschuss
Salad Bowl Mixed
Catalogna Oak Leaf
Oriental Spicy Greens Mixed
Little Gem
All Year Round
Mixed Salad Leaves
Rouge Grenobloise
Lamb's Lettuce
Soulie
Freckles
Iceberg
Webbs Wonderful
Little Gem
Lollo Rosso
Italian mixture of perpetual lettuces
I have All Year Round to sow yet.
I like the sound of Buttercrunch, Terri, what is that like? :) busy_lizzie
Playing a bit of catch up, so need to start sowing these (tomorrow) Will do these in barrels at home rather than at allotment. List as follows:
Italian Blend (HDRA)
Stir Fry (HDRA)
Mixed (Fothergills - free with mag)
Little Gem (Dobies)
Salad Bowl Mixed (DT Brown)
Leaf Salad (Dobies)
mat
Gone for
Red/green Salad bowl
Little gem
Sangria (nice red/green variety)
Lollo Roso
Rocket
BL
buttercrunch letuce is yurrrrmmmeee - I could send you some to try if you like.
PM me your address & they'll be on their way ;)
Terri
I tend to go for the mixes of leaves as I find them easier to use as with no water, bolting is a real problem, however I am growing
lollo rosso
red oak leaf
Australian Yellow leaf (or something to that affect)
romaine
italian mix
spicy mix
and have lots more which I sow wherever gaps occur.
If anyone has any spare little gem seeds - even just a pinch, I wouldn't mind. ;D
Thanks Terri that would be great, - I have pm'd you!
EJ I have some Little Gem seeds, just send me your pm and I will get them straight off. I love these too as they are such a tasty lettuce.
:) busy_lizzie
They're in the post today ;)
Enjoy them
Terri
Hi all,
nobody has mentioned dellicato, this is a lovely red loose leaf variety that you can grow as cut & come again or leave & pick as small whole lettuces, I grew it last year & you can keep cutting it & it just keeps growing . ;D brilliant.
Adrian.
I am growing:
Drunken Woman (well it had to be done!)
Little Gem,
Lobjoits,
Some frilly thing whose name escapes me!
Red Oak Leaf
any many more I cannot remember!
Quote from: Doris_Pinks on May 08, 2006, 09:20:33
I am growing:Drunken Woman (well it had to be done!)
This sounds great - will need to look out for this one next year ;D
mat
Mat have PM'd you!
Quote from: Doris_Pinks on May 08, 2006, 10:39:12
Mat have PM'd you!
Thanks ever so much ;D reply in PM!
mat
Currently growing -
mixed salad leaves
freckles (from Real Seeds)
Endive (from Real Seeds)
Mibuna
Purple orach
Blue & white borage (flowers to decorate salad)
Nasturium Alaska
... will also sow at intervals
Mizuna
Reine de glace
... bit of a salad habit here. :-[
LOL!! Do you think the "drunken woman" has been at my "Sangria"? :P (Now how did I miss one in the catalogues with a name like that? ::))
I'm also growing Pablo and Mascara from VidaVerde. Both coloured lettuces, said to be slow to bolt...
And some cos: Valmaine, Chicon Batavia and Rusty. Though the seed are rather old, so I'm not sure if they'll germinate but what the heck - nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Oh, and a whole loada other leaves and flowers to go in salads...
Quote from: Squashmad on May 08, 2006, 11:56:22
Currently growing -
mixed salad leaves
freckles (from Real Seeds)
Endive (from Real Seeds)
Mibuna
Purple orach
Blue & white borage (flowers to decorate salad)
Nasturium Alaska
... will also sow at intervals
Mizuna
Reine de glace
... bit of a salad habit here. :-[
So many salad leaves - so little time ;D
Terri 8)
Boring, I know but Little Gem and Lollo Rosso.
That's brilliant Terri, Thanks very much! :D
EJ, Your "Little Gems" on their way! :D
busy_lizzie
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
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a364/Mrsava/mixedlettuce.jpg)
They actually look better in the rain, don't they? 8)
What...the weeds? Thanks to the rain I didn't get that far up the plot. Friday I will get them weeded.
Webbs Wonderful
Salad Bowl
Aussie Yellow
Little Gem
Lollo Rosso
Winter Density
May King
One I can't remember ???
just been down teh g'house to check on mine and the bloody slugs have eaten 2 trays full :'( :'( :'(
Quote from: Doris_Pinks on May 08, 2006, 18:18:15
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)
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
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.
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 ;)
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 (http://forums.thepoultrykeeper.co.uk/images/smiles/icon_twisted.gif)
Quote from: CityChick on May 08, 2006, 19:25:36
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
This evening's crop. :) :) :) :) Yum.
I' ve just been out harvesting Molluscs, twilight on a damp evening and a hard surface, music to my ears!!!!
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
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