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
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ReplyDeleteExactly! :)
DeleteSo you were at Malvern too last week 😄 We had a lovely day there under blue skies and sunshine on the Wednesday but I did miss the big floral marquee 😢 I've seen the watering can explanation elsewhere too which I thought was helpful. I've always sadly struggled with spatial awareness.
ReplyDeleteBut the garden itself is the ideal way to social distance from the world!
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