Share My Lettuce - Maggie Smith & Kenneth Williams/Roderick Cook/The 1957 Londo

Advantages: salad days are nearly here
Disadvantages: Slugs may eat mine first

...Lettuce let me brag and be big headed I usually do not buy a single lettuce from the shop after May. I usually successfully grow more than ample even giving some away. Let me not mislead you my garden is not massive. I think it is wonderful others might not. T hey might come and cut my meadow, spray it with pesticide grow things in straight lines. Not my kind of gardening. Anyway back to lettuce I sowed some lettuce seeds in the greenhouse last week these were the variety Salad bowl the red ones and the green ones .I think the mix looks pretty in a salad to serve for guests. The seeds merchants are Suffolk herbs these are organic seeds they cost£1.09p per packet. I filled a seed tray with some organic potting compost then sprinkled some seeds thinly over it .I then covered the seeds with about 1.1/4 cm / ½ inch compost. I... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to grow, many varieties available, tasty addition to sandwiches and salads
Disadvantages: None

...(12in) in spread. The cos types are about 25cm (10in) tall, others about 15cm (6in) high. Lettuces are primarily used as salad vegetables, but outer and older leaves may also be cooked or used in soups. Lettuces are cool-season crops, growing best at 10 - 20 degrees celsius (50 - 68 degrees fahrenheit). Cool nights are essential for good results. Some cultivars are tolerant of heat or frost. Germination is poor above 25 degrees celsius (77 degrees fahrenheit); at these temperatures, plants tend to bolt rapidly and may become bitter, although loose-leaf lettuces are slower to bolt than other types. Grow in an open site, or in light shade in very hot weather. Lettuces need fertile, moisture-retentive soil and, although they fall into none of the rotation groups, should not be grown in the same patch of soil for two years in a row to... Read review

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Advantages: Comfortable bar for bite to eat
Disadvantages: Can get very busy

...Slug and Lettuce Situated on Newcastle's quayside, and opposite the Sage, this is ideal for lunchtime meals and evening drinks. BAR/ RESTAURANT The restaurant/bar is accessed via some stone steps, so not really possible for disabled guests unless I have missed some other opening. Once inside, there are plenty of wooden tables and chairs dotted randomly about the eating area, as well as some low comfy sofas and low tables by the windows. At the back of the area is the bar and some small tables and stools, which are ideal for guests wanting only a drink, away from the windows. However, wherever guests sit, they can order only a drink, or a full meal. THE MENU The menu is always conveniently placed on whichever table you sit at, probably to tempt those who had come into the restaurant for only a drink. There is... Read review

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