Lactuca sativa

Not at all impressed with this "3 week salad mix"... Bought it just before lock down kicked in, hoping to have some fresh greens, this is all I have so far.

Maybe enough for a single finger sandwich, but unfortunately not a full afternoon tea platter

😂 @Mikekally maybe it's just some kind of hipster food! Microgreens is a thing, right? 🤔

With avacados on toast, yep 🤣🤣

Planting out the early #lettuce. They look so #tiny! Hope they'll be ok... #little-gem #seedlings #gyo

Will you be standing guard for slugs tonight then? 😆

Lol, I actually did put down a bunch of #woolpellets after I took the picture! @Mikekally

Those things saved me last year, thanks for introducing us to woolpellets!

#lettuce #seedlings that weren't there yesterday 😁 Little Gem winter lettuce.

I may have got confused and started these #lettuce a bit early 🤔 Webb's Wonderful, Little Gem and Catalogna Cerbiatta

It's getting a very #lettuce look about it 😁😄

Looks great! And not a nibble mark to be seen!

#fingerscrossed! @Mikekally so far the #woolpellets really seem to be doing the trick! The one lettuce section without them isn't doing nearly as well.

Defo have to look into this!

So it seems those #woolpellets expand a lot! I was able to take off the top layer and cover the same area again and this is what was left over 😊 and so far these #lettuces don't seem to have been nibbled any further...

That's great! Doing the job so far then

#fingerscrossed @Mikekally If they do the trick I'll be getting a lot of them!

So #windy today that I found these #lettuce making a run for it... 😂

How about planting a long thin border of Jerusalem Artichokes as a wind break. Cut tops of when they reach 5ft. Fast & v. easy growers & soup flavouring additive at harvest

Interesting, I don't think I've ever tried those, might look in to it 😊 @no_akira . I don't think it will often be this bad though #fingerscrossed

Ireland is famous for its soil stripping wind T

More #lettuces out among the #peas too. The first ones seem ok; their old leaves are a bit limp but the new ones seem to grow in well 😊

So I definitely sowed too much #lettuce... Just one of the three trays had about 70 plants in it! At least I have spares in case of slug attacks 😁

Well, I hope they'll be happy in their new home! They look so #tiny I'm not sure if they're tough enough, but they're under a cloche so that should help... #lettuce #gyo #transplant #separation-anxiety 😯

I think I sowed the #lettuce too densely, it's looking very crowded. Going to move some outside with the #peas but I hope it's not too early for them! #transplant #gyo

#lettuce already! I only just sowed these seeds! I wasn't even going to bother checking on them for a couple of days yet... #fastgrower

Took some days off to work in the garden but it's #freezing and #miserable out so I'm sowing #seeds instead. This is Webb's Wonderful #lettuce