Today I came across the old label from my prolific self-seeding lettuce that I have been writing about for the last few weeks – Green Salad Bowl – I finally know what I have been eating most nights. This is a great loose leaf variety which grows happily in any container. We have about eight lettuces on the go so we don’t over pick one particular lettuce. My mixed lettuce seedlings (grown from seed) I transplanted into their ‘pots’ today and I also started sowing Drunken Woman , Biscia Rossa, Buttercrunch and Little Gem lettuces in newspaper pots. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW4t_6dTAvA&feature=related My seeds seem to like our warm laundry and all my seeds over the last year and a half have happily sprouted without any effort. I just grow them in toilet rolls or newspaper pots with potting mix and cover with a piece of newspaper. My last lot of lettuce seeds I sowed straight outside in an ice cream container and they seemed to like it so I will see how my inside seeds go in terms of germinating and compare the two methods. I might need to move my pots soon to some other spot on the site as it is starting to become hazardous to enter by the front door and I imagine the number of pots will continue to grow once I am unemployed in four weeks time. I wonder if hubby will be happy to live on lettuce if I don’t find a new job?
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