Anyone started growing lettuce yet?

veggies

I put mine out at the weekend and fingers crossed they look fine at the moment...I'm in the North West and the weather has been lovely for the past few days although the nights have been chilly

Taye

im in the northwest, i moved my seedlings out into seperate pots and into the mini at the weekend (little gem and ice queen) and they look much happier than they where in the house.

Oh on a lettuce note they are seedlings atm about 1 inch high how long before they are big enough to eat?

billieboy_2

I put five Tom Thumb and five Webbs Wonder out at the weekend with baked eggshells surrounding them to (hopefully) stop the slugs and have now had to net them as well as the dog ate some eggshells and sicked them up Sunday morning:eek:. I'm in the West Midlands. I also planted out my runner beans, maybe too early but so far they are doing okay and I have some more sown for back up.

gingernutbizkit

thanks all.
I'm in solihull, west midlands.

Ging x

arkonite_babe

We have a thread similar to this already, I'll add your query to it so all the replies are together. Posts are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to catch up

MORPH3US

Which thread is that arkonite?

arkonite_babe

MORPH3US wrote: »

Which thread is that arkonite?

Threads are now merged for convenience

Rummer

Mine have been sown in the greenhouse, no idea if this is right or not but I had a space and an urge for lettuce!

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

Mine have been sown in the greenhouse, no idea if this is right or not but I had a space and an urge for lettuce!

You're 'Oop north' so that might be appropriate, but my greenhouse is going up to 90 degrees in old money and it's getting rather hot for germinating lettuceon the benches there. Lettuce like it coolish for germination, so it may be a case of moving them in and out, as needed.

pompeii

My little lettuce plants ( i made them myself) went out a couple of weeks ago just before the high winds, the fleece got blown off and some critter got in and had a good dig around, so i lost over half of them.

I have since potted some more and they will be ready to plant out soon. I use a mix i get off ebay and i pick them as young salad leaves, once they get going we buy very little from the shops.

Also i left some of the rocket in the ground over winter it did have fleece over it and after a quick tidy we are now eating rocket. I also live up north.

Slightly off topic but the chillies i planted April last year are on the window sills in my house and are on their second crop.