Growing lettuce and cabbage

Lotus-eater

You don't want Kale, parsley, rocket, or spinach.

What you need is something called Perpetual Spinach. I don't know what you mean, "I haven't seen it on the website" but they are available everywhere.

Try here, I've had good experience with them. Who knows, you might even decide you want to eat a bit yourself
http://www.moreveg.co.uk/shop/article_LEBPSA/Leaf-Beet-Perpetual-Spinach.html?shop_param=cid%3D44%26aid%3DLEBPSA%26


Stick your lettuce outside in your pots. Both the spinach and the lettuce will be happier in the ground and you do need to worry about slugs and snails, because they will almost definitely devastate your crop if you don't try to stop them.

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Lotus-eater wrote: »

You don't want Kale, parsley, rocket, or spinach.

What you need is something called Perpetual Spinach. I don't know what you mean, "I haven't seen it on the website" but they are available everywhere.

Try here, I've had good experience with them. Who knows, you might even decide you want to eat a bit yourself
http://www.moreveg.co.uk/shop/article_LEBPSA/Leaf-Beet-Perpetual-Spinach.html?shop_param=cid%3D44%26aid%3DLEBPSA%26


Stick your lettuce outside in your pots. Both the spinach and the lettuce will be happier in the ground and you do need to worry about slugs and snails, because they will almost definitely devastate your crop if you don't try to stop them.

Thanks for the link, I will definitely buy some at that price!!!!!! I paid £1 for a very small bag of spinach at Morrisons can't believe how cheap it is to buy! If I plant in pots how do I go about stopping the snails and slugs? Also so that I can stop ask simple questions, please can you recommend any good pot growing books - I got two books on veg growing but they seem to believe that we all have an allotment or large garden when I only have a small yard and no ground space so pots are the only way.

Thanks for any advice,

Jen