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  • Where can I sow my free lettuce and radishes?

    I got the July magazine today, with two lots of free seeds. I'd love to use them, but I haven't got any more beds. I could possibly dig a new bed, but I can't dig a new bed every time I get some free seeds. There seems, atm, to be plenty of space between my broad bean plants ('The Sutton'), so I thought of putting the radishes in there. As for the lettuces - gawd knows. What do other grapes do?
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    I plant lettuces into a seed tray then as they get bigger I pop them into any little gaps I see. At the moment I have lettuces growing in between my sweetcorn, brassicas and on the edges of some of the other beds. I've also planted a row of radishes down the middle of my runner beans, and dotted around courgettes, I've also popped in some extra beetroot rows between the potatoes,. I just pull them up as I need them to make more space. I figure that by the time the main plants need the soil these little salads will have all been scoffed long ago.

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    • #3
      Most free seeds we get are generally put aside for the following year as we've planned and bought what we wanted in the late winter/early spring
      Although it's always fantastic to get free seeds- it's a pity they don't arrive earlier in the year!!!!!
      Having said that there's aways room for radish- and lettuce tend to be sown a few weeks apart to keep the supply going ...can you sow a few now to replace the lettuce you are going to eat????
      Failing that- tubs/old pots/old washing up bowls- anything cheap from a car boot sale????
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      • #4
        They go into modules and get transplanted out when I have room. I only sow a pinch at a time, so there is always something ready to go into spots such as when the broad beans run out of steam in a few weeks.

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        • #5
          Nip up and plant them in my lottie Stephen, I seem to have a spare bed, seeing as half my beans didn't germinate

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          • #6
            Save them for next year?
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            • #7
              Thanx for the tips, all. Yes, it did occur to me after posting that I could hang on to them till next year. However, I think I'll bung the radishes in amongst the broad beans, and, as Idiegox suggested, sow the lettuces in seed trays, then transplant them wherever there's a spare spot.
              Sarz - although Skipton is in God's own county, and a beautiful part of it at that, I ain't going all the way up there from Hertfordshire just to sow a few radishes and lettuces - sorry!
              Tour of my back garden mini-orchard.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by StephenH View Post
                Sarz - although Skipton is in God's own county, and a beautiful part of it at that, I ain't going all the way up there from Hertfordshire just to sow a few radishes and lettuces - sorry!
                Oh, alright, I guess I'll sow my own then

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                • #9
                  I sowed the lettuces in a big seed tray that's deep enough to home them I might transplant in and around other bits when thinning them though. I'm gonna sow the radishes when my Swift tatties leave the bags as a follow on. I intend to put carrots and mooli in the later tattie bags
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                  • #10
                    I've got lettuce in between my beans ... they like the shade
                    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                    • #11
                      How about in window boxes, tubs, pots, buckets ..... ?
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                      • #12
                        Jumping in to say thanks for the tips - I've got space between my broad bean rows, so I'll make use of that for some more radishes.
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