The lettuces (Fothergills headed mixed and Little Gem) sown back in February (8th) are now reaching a harvestable size - we picked a Catalogna yesterday:
Others reaching maturity are Merveille des Quatre Saisons:
Black seeded simpson ( not exactly black - more like lime green!):
Iceburg 2:
Little Gem or possibly All the Year Round?:
Distinctive Lollo Rosso with frilly red leaves:
The only lettuces out of the mixed pack of seeds that we don't have are Romaine Ballon and Lobjoits Green Cos. Six out of eight varieties is not bad though. Here is the raised bed looking busy:
We have lots of smaller lettuces waiting in the wings to fill gaps as we harvest stuff out of the raised bed.
The pots you can see contain flowers and veggies being hardened off before planting into their final positions. Talking of which, the chillis and tomatoes are now potted up in the greenhouse:
We have decided to keep the following tomatoes:
3 Black Cherry;
2 Bejbino
1 Falcrosso
2 Garden Pearl
We have yet to sort out supporting structures for the cordons. The bush varieties (Falcrosso and Garden Pearl) will be placed on a bench so they can tumble down. The chilli varieties are Cayenne Pepper, Cherry Hot, Aji Wrecking Ball, and Cherry Bomb. We have kept 2 of each.
Today we also potted on 9 Purple Sprouting Brocolli Early plants and 9 January King cabbages sown last month.
The foxgloves and aquilegias sown about a year ago are looking lovely at the moment:
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