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
Depends on where I am and whether I've got my specs on or not but I detect shades of squirrel :)
ReplyDeleteThat's two for 'squirrel' and...
ReplyDeletea friendly dinosaur wearing a high crown or elvis hair caught in the wind
a bug-eyed, squished-up donkey with a high crown or elvis hair caught in the....
I saw an owl, but it also reminds me of the talking tree in David Jone's (Melbourne department store) Charistmas cave.
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ReplyDeleteI'm with victoria!
ReplyDeleteHi everyone! Some interesting suggestions - I 'saw' a rabbit when I looked at this tree whilst we were in Cornwall.
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