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for my first ever reply.......how exciting !!!! They are things like sweet peas, violas, French marigolds tomatoes lettuce etc. I seem to have the growing bug!! .the greenhouse is a rickety cheap plastic unheated greenhouse ! Well done, Cler and welcome

anyone else make you feel guilty. Life is too short to stress over lettuce. Stopwatchgardener - how about growing any of the following: * sweetcorn - once in, need no care,are large 'grasses' & you wait till the seeds have formed before eating them* globe

, they will regrow. Good luck! (Maybe they don't like lettuce - they haven't touched mine either) New to the veg. garden, so want to know is it too late for me to grow either bean in containers? My garden is very small, have got potatoes growing in large tree pot

plants which tends to bolt such as lettuce, pak choi, parsley (mushrooms). They seems to cope better in a shade. We had reasonable results with french beans, peas, nasturtiums, swiss chard. Carrots were a bit small. We also grow runner beans on sunnier

next year. So here are my allotment New Year resolutions for 2009:I must grow crops that don't require regular picking as I don't live close enough to the plot to get there more than a couple of times a week. That's just not enough to harvest runner

crops, such as lettuce, radish or spinach, between big, slow- growing crops, such as sweetcorn or winter brassicas. The idea is that the quick crops use the spare space before their neighbours grow large enough to cover the soil (don’t try this on deep

I have an area of garden that from October to May gets no sun at all and if we get lots of rain becomes boggy. The rest of the year however it gets sun from midday to sunset and so can become quite dry. I have no idea what to grow, I considered

We grow our carrots and radishes in the same bed.  This year we have had to destroy our radishes as they all had (what I think is) carrot fly.  We are now concerned that our carrots will also have this problem.   Last year we only grew carrots

I did this and was very surprised how good it worked. Even used the summer lettuce leaves in the winter in my woodern lean too. Was plecently surprised and probably saved about 20 or 30 pounds and its leaves you have grown so you know what has

3500 ft. I have greenhouses and grow all the leafy veggies in grotubes. Everything does well and tastes good except the lettuce. It is always bitter. Do I need to change the ph or fertilizer.... no idea..... Thanks happymarion - fingers crossed for your