Another slight change to my plan. I’ve now added onions, a second variety of cabbage & chard to my grow list. And I’ll be using 3 beds, not 2 . The additional bed is the smallest in the garden. Veg quantities are still being kept small.
I just seem to be adding more flowers at the moment - my mason bees are due in a couple of weeks and I'm as anxious as a new mum! It doesn't help that they hatch at random, so I need to make sure there are flowers around every month so that they can feed when they emerge.
Oh, and I did buy a bunch of new lettuces from Vital Seeds. I'd been wanting to get Grenoble Red for ages because everyone raves about it, and they had some really cool varieties with names like "Elf Ears Oak" and "Really Red Deer Tongue". All organic and open-pollinated
(05-03-2021, 07:48 PM)Eyren Wrote: [ -> ]Oh, and I did buy a bunch of new lettuces from Vital Seeds. I'd been wanting to get Grenoble Red for ages because everyone raves about it, and they had some really cool varieties with names like "Elf Ears Oak" and "Really Red Deer Tongue". All organic and open-pollinated
I have tried a number of different varieties of lettuce but to be honest I have never found any great difference in taste, other than what you get between new growth and old growth
(05-03-2021, 09:08 PM)Spec Wrote: [ -> ]I have tried a number of different varieties of lettuce but to be honest I have never found any great difference in taste, other than what you get between new growth and old growth
I don't expect much difference in flavour, but it's nice to have some variety of texture and colour, especially if they also look pretty in the garden. I mostly grow cos/romaine, as I like the crunchiness (and Mr E like caesar salad), rather than the butterhead type that was the only lettuce we seemed to get when I was a kid.
On a general note, Red lettuce and other red leaves are less attractive to slugs than green ones................sure I've read that somewhere.
(06-03-2021, 04:28 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]On a general note, Red lettuce and other red leaves are less attractive to slugs than green ones................sure I've read that somewhere.
That may be why my red romaine did so well!
You are right Veggie, slugs don't go for red cabbage the way they go for the green ones