Shopping yesterday there was no lettuce on the shopping list for the first time ever – my lettuces have been happily growing away the last few weeks and are getting to the point that we can now start to eat them. We adore salad in our household so we will need to keep planting lettuce in order to have a constant supply so that is one of the weekend tasks. I am also raising lettuce from seed to see how difficult the process is and whether I have the patience for it. The lettuce seedlings are so fragile when they are young in comparison to the hardy pea and bean seedlings – I’m not sure how successful I will be in raising them. I weathered off my first lot of seedlings (peas, beans, sweet peas) last week out on the porch – they had a tough first week – frost and howling gale force winds. It was hard to believe it was actually getting to the end of spring. Living in the North Island I don’t expect to be removing ice from the car windscreen in November!
