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First salad leaves today from my new polytunnel

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I haveWinter Density lettuce, Pak Choi and Lamb's lettuce.

See the tunnel on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTNDwm_N32s

Haven't got any salads under glass this year... but the garlic mustard is coming through in the hedges...  :)

Got some salad leaves germinated on my windowsill. :D

Quote from: caroline7758 on February 14, 2011, 16:40:11
Got some salad leaves germinated on my windowsill. :D

ditto plus some to go into our polytunnel  :)

Mine's still in the packet. I'm not even thinking of planting it yet.

Picked a large plastic bag full of land cress today. Just like watercress, and a much neglected salad plant.

Pak choi seeds about to go in gutters, so have lost time there......

Been growing it all through the winter under lights,

My lettuce Dazzle, wild rocket, salad rocket, watercress aqua, pak choi, mustard and lamb's lettuce have all made it through the winter in an unheated greenhouse. We have had several cuttings already this year. Very surprising!

I am hopeless with lettuce. I hardly ever get a decent one. But your answers make me wonder if I shouldn't try a salad bed, with just young shoots etc, instead of actually trying to make lettuces!  I grow rocket successfully, just let it grow in a patch and self seed, then just snip off young shoots as they come up.

I have a large pot near the water barrels, maybe I should just stick some lettuce type seed in there and snip off what comes up!!!  :)

Just be vigilant... around water barrels is a favourite haunt for slugs and snails...  :)

Have just watched the video, excellent! Thanks very much. Congratulations on the 2010 result. You deserve it.

got mediterranean salad leaves  germinating on kitchen windowsill - glad that i

haven't done any more as weather has turned cold again

Debs

my lettuce that I grew over winter in boxes and in a cheapo plastic greenhouse thingy are stirring back into life, so will start picking some leaves soon  :)

And having seen your film I now have polytunnel envy!!

I have some rocket which overwintered under a simple cloche along with corn salad. The cornsalad has amazed me, as in my garden it is growing in numerous places where self seeded, already into full grown plants, so this salad crop is proving to be very hardy.

I haven't got any left from winter..it all had it..Normally something survives in cold GH...I had struggle to find whole GH from under all that snow, never mind any crops ::)
But I've dug out the seeds and I've got plenty in no time ;)
Ohh...those plant look really lovely..

Just got a few potfuls germinating again, I do like to do lettuce this time of year, it's so easy, it sort of gives you hope  ;D