Lettuce
Watch our animated guides to to sowing, growing and harvesting your lettuce.
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Get sowing
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Get growing
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Harvest time!
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Grub's up!
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Get sowing
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Get growing
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Harvest time!
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Grub's up!
Tip of the day
Boil garlic until soft, drain and mash it. Put the liquid in a jam jar and use 2 spoons per watering can on your plants. Slugs don't go near it.
Christine
Handy Links on the BBC
- BBC Gardening: Growing salad
- BBC Gardening: Sowing outdoors
- BBC Gardening: Window boxes
- BBC Gardening: Seeds and gardening with children
- BBC Gardening: Growing vegetables
- BBC Gardening: Growing in pots
- BBC Nottingham: Hunting slugs
- BBC Science and Nature: Loving slugs
- BBC Food: Char sui lettuce leaf roll
Also on the web
- Royal Horticultural Society: Nigel Slater on growing lettuce
- Gardeners' World Magazine: Grow salad seeds in guttering
- Gardeners' World Magazine: Sow seeds indoors
- Gardeners' World Magazine: Plant out lettuce
- Health: Lettuce and nutrition
- The Vegetable Garden Guide: How to grow lettuce
- Garden of Eaden: A blog on growing lettuce from seed
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