[shaun]

wondering what types of lettuce you guys grow ?
i prefer webbs wonderful.

[WG.]

Sorry - can't think about food during Lent.  Will reply in 40 days time.

[shaun]

you can eat lettuce dave as much as you want  

[WG.]

Lobjoits Green Cos
Lolla Rossa
Little Gem
Curly endive

We only really eat Lobjoits 'cos (intended) they taste miles ahead of anything else.  The other three I grow for some local hotels and restaurants so that people can leave them on the side of their plates.

[FatGaz]

Lollo Rossa
Little Gem
Salad Bowl

Also trying a new one 'Can Can' - has anyone tried this one???

[mercury]

Salad bowl, because its the only one i seem to have any sucsess with.

[muntjac]

salad bowl n gem only ones with taste

[Bigbadfrankie]

my objective this year is to have a successful lettuce crop all summer. Hopefully Lettuce that do not wilt within 2 mins of cutting. But i like little gems as you cut and eat one per meal. Lettuce have so far not been my most successful crop at all :?

[shaun]

tell yer what i did learn of this old chap about lettuce
they dont like direct sunlight all day long try to plant them in a shady bit,north side of your runner beans or amongst your corn or like he told me between your potato rows
and grow them in pots 1st dont sow them direct.

[muntjac]

less of the old boy ya cheeky *

[shaun]

not as old as you mate    

[Aidy]

Lollo rosso and little gems for me.

[Celtic Eagle]

Lillte Gem for a cos lettuce and All Year Round as a butterhead both tasty and just a nice size don't go all limp and 'orrible before you can eat them

[mum2many]

just bought some Little Gem seeds from aldi today.

[Oliver]

Start in seed trays:
Salad bowl - red and green - look pretty in the bowl
Webbs Wonderful and Great Lakes - like Iceberg, crunchy and moist
Cos

Sow direct, keep under fleece to avoid flea beetle:
Mixed 'Spicy Leaves' from Suttons - (incs Indian Wave mustard (lovely green), Rocket, Firery Red Mustard) - cut and come again type.

(Sow thinly about 2ft wide, 4ft long. Cover with fleece about 4ft wide, weighed down gently along the edges with pipes or stones. Then as the plants grow they push the fleece up. Crop on a cut and come again basis in about 4 weeks. Before the cutting becomes too sad so another row, so you will have greens for most of the year.)


This lot is ready for eating! Yum yum.

Will try Little Gem again, but not too successful in the past.