Tag: Lettuce

  • Lettuce and Pak Choi Harvest in Late May and Early June

    Lettuce and Pak Choi Harvest in Late May and Early June

    This year has been a successful year for Green Lettuce and a poor year for red Lettuce as only one seed germinated. I sowed 3 types of lettuce this year, a romaine green lettuce, a red lettuce and a light green loose leaf lettuce – Black Seeded Simpson. This is the first time I’ve had…

  • Early May Updates – Vegetable Growing Progress

    Early May Updates – Vegetable Growing Progress

    There’s has been lots of progress this past month, here’s some of my highlights on my vegetable plot and greenhouse. The greenhouse has been great in the cold, windy and wetter weather. Seeds have still been germinating in approximately 7 to 10 days. And there’s still room in the greenhouse which is great. Yesterday the…

  • Mange tout, french beans, lettuce & blackberry harvest

    Mange tout, french beans, lettuce & blackberry harvest

    August is prime harvest time. The salad crops like lettuce and spinach need to be picked regularly otherwise with the rising heat, they will normally bolt and start flowering. Some of my lettuce has already started doing this. I’ll pick the decent leaves and get rid of the rest of the plant into the compost…

  • Colourful Salad Bowl Harvest

    Colourful Salad Bowl Harvest

    The salad, herbs and roots bed is starting to bloom in shades of dark red, lime green, mid green and a mixture of both and it looks even better on your plate at dinner time or in a sandwich for work. I love this shade of dark red lettuce with its frilly leaves that forms…

  • Space Saving in the Vegetable Garden – InterCropping

    Space Saving in the Vegetable Garden – InterCropping

    One of the skills you need to keep your vegetable garden thriving is organisation. You will need to be able to sow seeds and when the seedlings are ready to plant out into your raised beds, you will need to work out where to put them. This is where a space saving vegetable garden will…

  • 5 Easy Vegetables to Grow in May in your Garden

    5 Easy Vegetables to Grow in May in your Garden

    1. Radish Radishes have got to be the Number 1 easiest vegetable to grow. Push the seeds into the soil in March onwards in pots or the ground and ‘hay presto’ a radish after a minimum of 4 weeks. Radishes are a great vegetable to start children off growing with as they are a quick…