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    I have a 3 foot square planter that I have filled with mixed leaf salad and spring onions but wondered if anyone can recommend a nice crunchy cut and come again type green lettuce. It's nice to have a mixture of leaves which I have got but would like a nice traditional crunchy green type lettice that I can keep cutting bits off as and when I need it rather than have to cut a full lettuce and waste most of it.
    I did grow one last year but got the small plug plants off my uncle that now can't remember the variety.

    Thanks

  • #2
    Hmm, when you say cruchy lettuce I think of iceburgs and they aren't really caca. They grow a heart. I grow Great Lakes - it's an iceburg, it will heart up but in the early days I take the other leaves off.

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    • #3
      Here's one I prepared earlier http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...uce_79080.html
      Embarrassingly, I can't tell you the results as some failed to grow, others were slugged and those that survived lost their labels. I'm not very good at these comparison tests

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      • #4
        Black seeded Simpson its a crunchy loose leaf and grows in all weather conditions etc
        I don't grow any heading lettuce after seeing the aphids that get trapped inside!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
          Embarrassingly, I can't tell you the results as some failed to grow, others were slugged and those that survived lost their labels. I'm not very good at these comparison tests
          Thank goodness I`m not the only one
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          Member of the Nutters Club but I think I am just there to make up the numbers

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          • #6
            I grow Lollo Rossa a CACA loose leaf quite crisp and decent flavour tis red though. I pair this with Mesclun a salad leaf mix which to me as a decent bite.
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            • #7
              +1 for the lolla Rossa even though it's red, slugs don't seem to bother it either

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              • #8
                I have some Lolla Rossa that I brought back from the dead from aldi a few weeks back, they are doing well, I have just ordered some Black Seeded Simpson seeds to try as well, these added to my mixed leaf seeds should about do it I think.

                Thanks again, I will post some pics when my salad bar gets going.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Spunky View Post
                  Black seeded Simpson its a crunchy loose leaf and grows in all weather conditions etc
                  Another vote for BSS

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                  • #10
                    There's a new lettuce available in the supermarkets called 'Sweet Gem' - it's like a Little Gem but bigger, and it's delicious. I Wish seed for that was available.
                    He-Pep!

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                    • #11
                      I just grow little gems, they are so tiny that there isn't any wastage (as I'd get with icebergs).

                      I grow a line of them and as I pull them up I pop a few seeds in the hole with a bit of BF&B. By the time I get to the end of the row, the first ones are ready to be eaten again. One lettuce is a tiny side salad, or a bit of lettuce for two burgers from the BBQ. Hard to imagine you ever getting wastage off them.

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