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Last year being short of time I sowed a row of lettuce and just let them grow. When the small plants were large enough to eat I thinned them leaving one plant at the correct spacing. The small leaves were eaten as baby leaves and the single plants were left to develop. Result, early baby leaves and a succession of lettuces. No waste of seed, there are always too many anyway and no root disturbance to the ones left to develop.
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Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet -
I'm even lazier! Last year, I bought a box of "living salad" and planted the seedlings in the GH. Ate some, left some to flower and seed in situ. Now I'm doing the same as you, eating some and leaving the rest to fill out.
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Instead of cutting a whole head of lettuce we're harvesting just the outer leaves as they mature. Lobjoits are keeping us well supplied at the moment.Location ... NottinghamComment
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VC are those all lettuces self seeded?it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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Yes and there were a lot more on the other side. I left them to flower, then cut off the dead stalks and shook them over the beds. Some had already done their own shaking and were germinating so I knew they were rary-ing to go.
Here's some I potted up a few weeks ago for an outside salad garden. They'd don't look so good today after all the hailstones.
Fortunately there are still 100s left in the GH.
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I thought that was how you were supposed to do it, roitelet!
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THey are supposed to be thinned before they get to edible size.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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Ah! Well, I tend to start thinning as I need leaves when they're small, too. If it's lazy, I'm in!Comment
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Really liked that so when out today I bought a pack of living salad leaves for a £1 at sa----bries and have planted some in the greenhouse and the rest will go outside under fleece, though we have sunshine and not hail it is still too cold for anything to be outside without protection, and before anyone starts to wonder if I am feeling ok, due to the fact that I am agreeing with VC, I think that using living salad leaves is a sensible ideaOriginally posted by veggiechicken View PostYes and there were a lot more on the other side. I left them to flower, then cut off the dead stalks and shook them over the beds. Some had already done their own shaking and were germinating so I knew they were rary-ing to go.
Here's some I potted up a few weeks ago for an outside salad garden. They'd don't look so good today after all the hailstones. Fortunately there are still 100s left in the GH.
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and when I say I bought, I actually put them in with the shopping so OH paid for them
it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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I didn't know you knew those words, rary,................."bought", "agreeing" and "sensible".
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Quick - rary obviously needs a doctor! I do a similar arrangement in my salad tier by the side door. I have a friend who has an entire gh devoted to rocket in the same fashion...Another happy Nutter...
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I'll have to try those 'living lettuce' next time I see them for sale.Location....East Midlands.Comment
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I've seen videos abt putting lettuce scraps in water, apparently they root. I've done this with spring onions and celery and it works
Lazy this way just means minimum effort but just as or more productive
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L1dl often have them (don't tell rary but they're chaper there). I've bought living Komatsuna there too. nk there's still some of that selfseeded in the GH.Originally posted by Bren In Pots View PostComment
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I came across those words while reading a bookOriginally posted by veggiechicken View PostI didn't know you knew those words, rary,................."bought", "agreeing" and "sensible". and felt the need to use them somewhere
No they are not! OH paid for them so cost me nothingOriginally posted by veggiechicken View Post but had been in a Lidls and they didn't have any, plus the ones that I did let OH buy were a vary good quality
Last edited by rary; 06-04-2019, 01:43 PM.it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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