grow lettace on your windowsill

[divvy]

I went to Lidls last week and bought a tray of planted oak leaf lettace to cut and come again for 99p . It's doing great on the kitchen windowsill , and I'm picking odd leaves and getting loads. So , I thought to myself , if they can do it so can I . My kids live in flats with no garden worth speaking of so I got a packet of oak leaf seeds , 80p wilks and planted them up one each . I did it in old ice cream cartons. They are now 2 cms high and the kids are really pleased that they are going to get free lettace all summer . I think that they cost me about 20p each to do ,I still have loads of seed left for doing repeat sowings . Bargin .

[Two_Sheds]

lettuce prefers it cool. A south-facing window will probably fry them

[Cosmo and Dibs]

My lettuce seedlings are very long and spindly. In fact, they can hardly stand up.

[windowsillqueen]

My lettuce seedlings are in window boxes outside. They were sown a month ago and have still not got bigger than a seedling... what am I doing wrong? My tomato plants that were planted at the same time are a foot tall....

[jemma_charlie]

i use the cartons/trays that mushrooms come in. it means it doesnt take up a lot of room so you are able to have different types on the go for more variety

[Mooresey]

My girlfriend planted some and put them in our bedroom window, south facing. She moved them to the conservatory, north facing, and now they are rocketing

[snohare]

I think if they are too warm or get the wrong amount of UV then they grow too fast vertically and don't put on proper leaf growth. Some types of glass screen out UV, some don't - that makes things a bit confusing.

[sclarke624]

I moved my lettuce from a south conservatory which is very hot to the east facing kitchen window and they did better in the Kitchen. They are about three inches high and doing well now outside, but I am in the south. I started some pearl gem off outside in garden and they are doing fine. Think they like cool.