Black Seeded Simpson

Apparently Black Seeded Simpson is the name of this enormous lettuce that I picked today along with some beans, courgettes and onions:

No idea why it has black in its name as the leaves are meant to be bright green! This lettuce was grown from Mr Fothergill's seed entitled Lettuce Headed Mixed. It's a good job we eat a lot of salad as there are lots more lettuce on the way:

The two rows on the right are Lobjoits Cos and the row on the left was grown from the Headed Mixed seed (some of which have been eaten!) We have lots more lettuce seedlings nearly ready to go out too:

These were sown on the 2nd August along with some radish, Cherry Belle, which are now ready for harvesting:

I can't believe how quickly these have matured!The radish were grown in a large container under Enviromesh. Note the minimal flea beetle damage to the leaves due to the Enviromesh. It has'nt stopped the slugs from having a little nibble at some of them though!