Salad Days: Mastering Lettuce
I've decided one of my salad challenges for this year is to grow as many lettuce varieties as I can, ready for the publication of my planned Factsheet* later on. The idea is to grow as many of the Tried and Trusted lettuce varieties last year's Salad Challengers helped compile, then provide a visual guide and as many lettuce facts as I can muster. So far I've found around half of those listed**. Then naturally whilst I was out searching - because such is the way with seeds - a number of other varieties found their way home too ;) A couple of weeks ago I sowed 22 varieties***. Just the simple act of sowing them has me intrigued. Why are some lettuce seeds black and others white****? They split into about half white to half black in my sample and as far as I can tell it's nothing to do with whether they're a type of cos, iceberg, or whatever. I sowed them indoors and popped them into a propagator on the windowsill. The soil's too cold outside for sowing
How unusual, sweet too!
ReplyDeleteMade me smile!
ReplyDeleteWelly good.
ReplyDeleteI passed the garden of kettles again today. I'm always on the look out for new unusual gardens but not having much luck recently.
They do look good. I wonder what happens about drainage.
ReplyDeletecuuutiiieee! :) This one made me remember how good it was to sing in the rain..
ReplyDeleteLovely wee welly garden, all it needs now is a robin perched on the edge of one.
ReplyDeleteBridget - aren't they just?
ReplyDeleteSusan - me too x
Mark - I'm sure when you find something, you'll pass it right along :)
Esther - I suspect they were probably leaking in the first place and so got donated for this project
Cecile - most cute and I've seen another example which might feature here at some point...
Cally - welcome :) That would have been great to capture on camera wouldn't it?
Outdoor products - I suspect you're spam, so I've removed your comment. But it was a good one, so I'll repeat it here:
Hehe, those are cutie li'l things... I guess they drill the bottom for drainage?