HELP , lettuce?

[Dorothy rouse]

Due to my lack of planning, I've just picked the last of the lettuce!

Is there any that will grow now, outside, on plot, or have I go to the supermarket, and buy tasteless again?


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[veggiechicken]

Panic not, Dotty. I've just sown Winter Gem and will sow Valdor. More options listed here BBC - Gardening - Gardening Guides - Techniques - Grow your own winter salad

[Nicos]

Lambs lettuce aka corn salad is really yummy and you may well be eating it withing 4 weeks of sowing it!

I found this link which is really interesting/informative !
Corn Salad, Lamb's Lettuce

If you sow them under fleece- and keep it under fleece- it will germinate quicker and the leaves will be more tender...and you will be able to eat it sooner.
It's really lovely....and very popular here in France

[Bren In Pots]

I've done another sowing of 'all year round' plus Arctic king lettuces both do well over winter either in the GH or under cloches.

[Alison]

I've sown three varieties of winter lettuce and will do some direct sowings of lambs lettuce in the tunnel this weekend

[mothhawk]

Thanks for that link VC, I may try growing winter salad for the first time this year.

[Dorothy rouse]

I NEED a Polytunnel or GH!

I am 'deprived' from Kent!


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[Dorothy rouse]

I am also going to make a note of the varieties you have mentioned, and go in search tomorrow !

Thank you


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[mothhawk]

I NEED a Polytunnel or GH!

I am 'deprived' from Kent!


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I've got a plastic cloche, a metre long and about 40cm high that will be perfect for salads

[Dorothy rouse]

I've got a plastic cloche, a metre long and about 40cm high that will be perfect for salads

I had some from the £1.00 shop,think I need to invest a few more pennies!


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[shirlthegirl43]

I tend not to grow salad as I am the only rabbit in the family. Anything else I can sow now to grow on in an unheated greenhouse?

[Alison]

I always grow some brassicas in my polytunnel over winter as you can manage more tender ones (such as calabrese) and the likes of spring cabbage come quite a lot earlier than outside. I've got cabbages, small caulis, calabrese and pak choi in the greenhouse at the moment and will be planting them out in a few weeks into the tunnel border.

[shirlthegirl43]

Wonder if it is worth trying to put a sort of raised bed affair in my greenhouse and see what I can persuade to grow over the winter in there?

[Dorothy rouse]

Panic not, Dotty. I've just sown Winter Gem and will sow Valdor. More options listed here BBC - Gardening - Gardening Guides - Techniques - Grow your own winter salad

Manage to find only 4 of the varieties mentioned , on this site,no Artic King, (was only Homebase), but I have
Planted 2 small rows of each today. It's now extremely wet, so they may have got washed away!

Will see if they germinate or not!


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