Living Salad transplants

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mumofstig

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Living Salad transplants
« on: January 31, 2011, 17:09 »
In Lidl they are selling  'Living Salad' for 89p.

There are, I think about 80 (at least), 3/4 inch baby lettuces growing in a small seed tray.
I cut what I wanted to eat for lunch and some of the rest I'm going to pot into modules and grow on, hopefully they will be full size a little earlier than the ones I sowed myself :)

It is better than buying a bag and throwing the other half away tomorrow because it's gone all brown and horrible  ::)

( I couldn't make up my mind whether this was Frugal or GYO  :unsure: so if you feel it's in the wrong place, you know what to do  :tongue2: )

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Re: Living Salad transplants
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2011, 18:05 »
Great idea. The ones you grow on.... Do you put them in the ground under a cloche?

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Re: Living Salad transplants
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2011, 18:07 »
10 out of 10 I've got a bag of leaves on the fridge as I type slowly going grey!  I may pop down to LIDL manyana to checkout their cheeeep seeeeds.  

Be careful not to put them outside too early.    :ohmy: Cheers
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Re: Living Salad transplants
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2011, 18:15 »
Great idea. The ones you grow on.... Do you put them in the ground under a cloche?

they'll go into a cold frame or the greenhouse once they are over the shock of transplanting. Whether/when they get planted out will depend on the weather though!

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Re: Living Salad transplants
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2011, 18:20 »
I've seen similar in the Co-op. In fact, I bought some last year and did just the same thing - eat some and plant the rest out - last year before our own lettuces were thriving as I didn't have any growing in the polytunnel over winter at that time.

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Re: Living Salad transplants
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2011, 18:26 »
I have done this sort of thing with "living" parsley bought from a supermarket, you usually get abot 50 plants in a pot and when transplanted into florists buckets (about 5) you get a whole years worth of parsley without the hastle of trying to get them to germinate :) :)

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