Growing Lettuce

As you can see I grow some of my lettuce in a hanging basket which is lined with an old fleece, I like bright colours. Last year I bought a somewhat more tasteful coir liner which the blackbirds removed most of in about 10 days to line their nests with, so I decided to put an old fleece to good use. There are a few radishes growing at the back of the basket as well.

Growing lettuce this way certainly avoids problems with slugs and snails! I don’t grow any lettuce in the ground now after being forced into discovering the benefits of growing it in containers when I only had a patio garden.

Growing lettuce is quite easy but there are a couple of tips it is helpful to know.

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Companion Planting

This is a fascinating subject you would think that you dig your ground, sow you seeds or bung your plants in, water, weed, feed and hey presto lots of lovely fresh veggies to eat – not if you put certain plants near each other.

I am just starting to investigate companion planting myself and am beginning to wish I had not, as there is far more to it than I ever thought that there was. I had no idea that onions and beans hate each other and should never be planted near each other, it is only by pure luck that I have not put them together.

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