Lettuce pray
My lettuce always bolts. No matter how careful I am, it really is too warm in the vegetable garden for this plant. Â I have even resorted to ordering packet upon packet of special seeds which all claim to have lettuce which won’t bolt too early. But we shall see.
And in the meantime I have decided to try lettuce in much more shaded locations.
I tried up near the potting shed in some pots. But that was a bust: a small colony of slugs which seem to love the shady damp conditions ate them to soil level in one night.
Now I have planted them in among the lilies at the front door. They get morning sun here, but that’s about it. And I am rather hoping that the foliage from the tall lilies above them will shade the leaves a little. It’s companion planting, but not as we know it.
And speaking of lilies. Here are the monsters I planted in Lynn’s pots up at the potting shed. Boy have they been lavished with water.
I use them as a camoflage to hide the sins of the not so attractive water barrels.
I could blame Artur for eating the lettuce in the pots by the shed. But he just uses the pots as a launch pad for the mole run behind the shed. He can perch here happily for ages, tail a quiver, just waiting for a mole to emerge.
He caught one here at Christmas, so I guess he is the eternal optimist.
Sarah
10th July 2012 @ 7:09 pm
What a happy picture this is of your potting shed, especially when you think you used to be ankle deep in chicken poop and parasites!