I came home last week to find a nice surprise – one of my pots that I hadn’t emptied out from last season had sprouted two lettuce seedlings.
Today I went out and now every pot has little lettuce seedlings sprouting everywhere. Only problem is that I don’t know what to do now! I will obviously have to re pot them as they won’t grow that well in old potting mix and there are far too many per pot. But I’m not sure about growing them outside given the amount of frost we get – I don’t know what type of lettuce they are and whether they will grow well in winter given they might not be winter cultivars. I wonder if I can take them inside and grow them and try to capture the little amounts of sun that we get over the rest of winter. Sometimes growing your own food is a very hit and miss affair when you are a novice.