Greens and Lettuces in Kiddie Swimming Pool
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Next pricking out into cell/module trays - love doing this, extremely therapeutic and calming
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youngers developing nicely =))
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Maturity - like a painting
sorry, couldn´t help myself - hope I didn´t post too many

sorry, couldn´t help myself - hope I didn´t post too many

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Re: Greens and Lettuces in Kiddie Swimming Pool
That is rather breathtaking. I never thought of starting my greens indoors. Really, with the tomato plants, I don't have the space. But my greens don't always do well direct-sown. Do you wait to plant out after last frost?
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cheers Nan =)
Wish you lived next door to me. I would soooooooooo love to share and trade tips and information with you.
Lettuce and salad leaves and the greens we are growing are really fairly to very frost hardy. If in doubt, cover them with fleece. I think there are some (white cloth thingy) in the pic above.
In fact, I have greens (coriander, chervil, salads, miner´s lettuce, spinach, beet leaves, kale, purple sprouting broccoli, mustard leaves) growing in our polytunnel now. The kale and spinach are at their sweetest when there is frost too.
All the greens mentioned can be grown outdoors too, just have the fleece on standby in case you get a really hard frost.
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Greens don´t do too well direct sown in my own experience, either slugs get to them or some other pest. I tend to transplant our greens when they are fairly big because of wireworms.
I usually sow greens in Feb and then plant out from March/Apr onwards. And sow again in Jul/Aug and plant out in Sept for the winter months.
I don´t usually plant them for the summer months because we have too much of other stuff to eat and the heat, they tend to bolt rather quickly and gets too bitter. And personally greens tastes a whole lot better in the cooler months especially spinach and kale.

If you have the time and patience, look through my ´guru´s videos whichever is of interest to you.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6s ... JBg/videos
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Karen, THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting your pics. Love them!!! Charles Dowding would be very impressed. Gotta run but will come back with questions. Unfortunately, we have some issues in South Florida that makes broadcasting seeds
a bit easier . But I have taken lots of workshops on producing transplants and love the process and drool over transplant
photos.
a bit easier . But I have taken lots of workshops on producing transplants and love the process and drool over transplant
photos.
"When we kill off the natural enemies of a pest we inherit their work."
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Glad you like em Elaine. Sometimes I can get so carried away.
check this thread about sowing and transplanting germinated seeds (I tried with celery, parsnips, salsify ) from wet paper towel and the next post with Charles´ seed sowing and transplanting seedlings videos. Hope this can help a little better, if you lived next door to us, haha! Think you would wish I would shut up!
Aaaaaaand I have thousands of pics too from our garden.
Please do question away, I would love to share and trade info with just about anyone and everyone.
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=221&start=20#p5722
check this thread about sowing and transplanting germinated seeds (I tried with celery, parsnips, salsify ) from wet paper towel and the next post with Charles´ seed sowing and transplanting seedlings videos. Hope this can help a little better, if you lived next door to us, haha! Think you would wish I would shut up!

Please do question away, I would love to share and trade info with just about anyone and everyone.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=221&start=20#p5722
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Wow you sure do have a way with lettuce. Yes you are a great artist making gorgeous paintings with you plants. It's so lovely to look at that I would hate to pick them. What do you do with all of the lettuce?
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm- maybe I could sow them in pots, rather than seed trays. I probably would get much better greens by sowing them in a protected manner.
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Karen, I wish there was a separate greens/lettuce category (hint, to powers that be) that you could post these as well. Your photos and subsequent discussions it generates need a much wider audience than a ‘kiddy pool’ thread under containers. People are going to miss What a phenomenal grower you are. The ‘moon vibes’ or forces you harness are sure powerful. Elaine
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Oh wow! Elaine. Me thinks I need to hide under the bed now.MsCowpea wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:45 am Karen, I wish there was a separate greens/lettuce category (hint, to powers that be) that you could post these as well. Your photos and subsequent discussions it generates need a much wider audience than a ‘kiddy pool’ thread under containers. People are going to miss What a phenomenal grower you are. The ‘moon vibes’ or forces you harness are sure powerful. Elaine




You will love this pic too… I love growing basil as well… the colours are soooooooooooo pretty and the smell… Just for you Elaine

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Nan, just start out with a few, they will provide plenty of harvests. =) And you can most certainly grow them in pots, gave this to the neighbour´s daughter who lives in Berlin in an apartment.
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We have a seasonal day restaurant and we thought about serving salads as a side dish instead of the usual typical ´weiss krautsalat´ - like a pickled white cabbage thingy. It was a sheer waste of effort and time. They all ended up in the pig buckets. My hubby says it isn´t worth growing for these peeps.

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Once we had to be away for a few days to visit my dad who had taken ill and came back home… and this was how much I had to harvest … a 210 litre (48 gallons?) rainwater barrel!

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We use whatever ´excess´ produce we have from the garden for the restaurant. The hubby says it isn´t worth serving these peeps such healthy and clean produce. Plus it is a lot ´cheaper´ for him to order what he needs. He would prefer I grew what we both would LOVE to eat for ourselves.
Tomatoes!
I will be TOMATOING him to death this year!

I will be TOMATOING him to death this year!

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Oh wow. What a harvest! My first thought is sell it to fancy 5 star restaurant but then it ceases to be fun and becomes a real chore as they want a constant supply and start dictating to you. Will most of your beds go into tomato production? And just a few for you and your husband’s salad fixins’. Elaine
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My staple vegetables are now mangetout peas, garlic, bush beans (for the Dante too ...lol), asian long beans, leafy greens, sweetcorn and a couple of watermelons. And now my new pet project - as many different varieties of toms. Oh, I grew pepinos last year. Love it! Will grow them this year again. Will show pics soon. I saved the seeds from them. They were huge. I bought 2 different plants and loved them! They have a similar taste to honey melons but not overwhelmingly sweet, which we both kinda prefer.
I had a pet project last year too… grew over 200 strawberry plants from over 40 varieties!


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Nan or anyone interested - catch these 2 videos, very helpful for lettuce growing - there are salads grown in containers in the 1st video as well =)
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oooops… think these need to be moved to the newly created forum for Lettuces etc Thanks Elaine =))
Sorry about it.. sometimes it is hard to know where to place certain posts, there´s always some kinda overlap.
Sorry about it.. sometimes it is hard to know where to place certain posts, there´s always some kinda overlap.

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