Early Lettuce

I sowed some lettuce in pots - I always get far too many, and too many all-at-once, if I sow a drill. So I do half a dozen of each of three varieties once a month.

Anyway, I pricked them out two to a 90cm 90mm pot, and never got around to thinning the "weaker" one. Planted them out earlier this week and culled the weaker one, so I had 18 lettuce "seedlings" (about 5 or 6 leaves each), popped them in a mug with a bit of water in the bottom as the plants still have some roots where I extracted them from the pot, and they have been providing nice salad for the week.

Not sure if its a good idea, but there seemed to be enough room in the pot for both plants.

 

"Did the culled ones keep growing in the mug"

Are you calling me a mug? :D Too late to tell now I'm afraid!

We've bought hydroponic lettuce from supermarket in the past, they last a while. They are in a cube of rockwool, and will survive on a little water in an ornamental pot (i.e. no drainage holes) or similar.

"I'm not metrically minded but in imperial I think thats getting on for a yard!"

That gave me a good chuckle this morning! 90mm would be better, I put that instead of 3.5" because the pots I used were metric - perhaps I'll stick to inches in future before you lot accuse me of being posh for using yard-long pots for my Lettuces!