It’s the third week in June, the UK has reached nearly 30 degrees centigrade for the first time this year and we are overrun with Lettuce. This year is a good year for Lettuce!

Lettuce, lettuce and more lettuce

We have 6 fully grown romaine lettuces plus some loose leaf lettuce and it’s lettuce for lunch and dinner every day and there’s only two of us that likes lettuce!

If anyone has any recipes for using up a lettuce glut, I’d love to hear them.

It’s not a bad thing though, as in the summer, we pick off the leaves as we need it and even the dark red lettuce (the only one that survived) is looking spectacular nestled among the carrots and baby tomato plants.

Mini Munch – Cucumbers

The Mini Munch variety of cucumber is proving a spectacular hit with my 4.5 year old. The excitement of finding another cucumber in the greenhouse is very infectious. It is is a snack size cucumber, perfect for little meals.

The best thing about this type of cucumber is all the flowers are female so there’s no cross pollination needed and all your flowers mean cucumbers.

Our cucumber growing setup is a pot with compost in on top of a grow bag on top of a Hozelock grow bag waterer tank in the greenhouse. To start with the cucumbers didn’t seem to be growing but maybe they were just settling in.

Now they have established themselves, we are harvesting 2-3 mini cucumbers per plant. We also have two cucumber plants in large pots in the greenhouse which are producing just as many as the growbag ones.

Peas

The early peas and the second lot of peas have been providing us peas for the last month. The early peas Variety – Oskar plants sown in mid February are coming to an end now.

Peas varieties Twinkle and Avola are still producing lots of little pods. Twinkle didn’t really need any supports and would be a perfect variety for growing in pots.

Radish and Rocket

Underneath the Pea A-Frame, I utilised the space for Radish and Rocket. Unfortunately the rocket bolted but produced some delicate white flowers which the black fly were attracted to immediately, so I left the rocket flowers in situ for some ‘nature does it best’ pest control.

There’s plenty more vegetables coming along on my home vegetable plot.

Growing in previous June’s

Week 2 in June 2021 – Vegetable Plot Video Walkthrough (old house)

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