lettuce

[yellow strawberry]

i have sown some salad leaves in paper pots they is quite a few per pot,,so do i need to thin them out before i put them in the ground or any other suggestions on what i can do with them or do i just plant them as they are

[Eyren]

Where are you going to plant them? Are they likely to be a target for slugs?

If the answer to the second question is yes, I would thin them to one per pot and grow them on until they are about the size of the plug plants you see in the garden centres, so that they have a chance of surviving attack.

[yellow strawberry]

thanks,,they are going in a bed in the back garden rather than down the lotty so i can pick them when i need them

[veggielover]

i sowed my lettuce leaves, spinach and will sow rocket into window boxes, they are off the ground (away from the slugs ) and can be brought indoors easily when it gets too cold in the evenings.

[ann-the-nan]

lettuce

I sowed mine in a 3" pot. When they have 2 leaves they go individually into small pots. At a decent size they can go into the "bed" at the right time.

[toastie]

Plan to sow a small amount of leaf lettuce into trays - did it last year and they came up really well - and could be picked a handful at a time. Plan to sow the rest of the lettuce seeds straight into the allotment plot but made the mistake last year of not picking them early enough so the wet weather we add turned them into a big mush. Will be more on the ball this year.

[evie451]

i gave my friend some seeds, some lettuce and a few toms, chillis a few herbs...as she has a south facing window sill and wanted to give it a go.......what i didnt expect was that she sowed the whole lot! the lot! and now they have all come up she doesn't know what to do with them there must be 100 seedlings, she sowed all the seeds i gave her at once and didn't label them so its testing me ability to recognise seed leaves! gawd i thought i was a novice....course now i have two huge trays full of seedlings occupying my greenhouse cos she doesn't know what to do with them!