We’ve just eaten the first of this year’s crops. Admittedly it was only lettuce, but we celebrated by pulling up three whole baby heads, dousing them with some dressing and eating them with half a lunchtime pizza each. Sadly no tomatoes to go with it yet.
Even the frosts don’t seem as harsh as they were, and as we move into spring the plants – both in the greenhouse and out – are enjoying the warmer weather.
It seems that it’s not only our lettuces that are enjoying the sun in the troughs behind the greenhouse. A hairy visitor has made them his bed.
With the greenhouse heater in place, we’ve started to pot up more of our seeds, putting in some safety-net duplicates in case the ones in the plot don’t come up.
A good lettuce is so much more than just limp green leaves. This year’s specimens have been a particular success, which we’re putting down to the fact that they’ve been grown under glass, rather than out in the garden.
