[mrs bouquet]

planted several pick and come again lettuce dotted in a flower bed with verbena.  One lettuce started to wilt and the stem where I had been cutting from had gone brown and slimey, so I dug it up.  Now another one has done same.  When I checked the roots they have gone whitey/grey.
The flowers are all ok.  It now looks as if the next one starting to do it.  They are spaced about 15" apart.  Whats going on?  ta.  Mrs Bouquet.

[peapod]

could they just at the end of their short life mrs b?

[noshed]

They don't like the heat much. Is there anywhere shady you could sow some more?

[mrs bouquet]

somebody suggested to me to grow shallow rooted salad crops in old gutters, which is brilliant because you can put them in all sorts of places, so I have grown a new batch which is in dappled shade under a tall bamboo. Mrs Bouquet