Lambs Lettuce
Emma Hanks
In all the expensive salad bags that you can buy in the supermarket, along
with raddicchio, endive and other levaes, there are little plantlets called
Lambs lettuce. I would love to grom these but do not know what they are
really called, nor where to get them.
Any ideas?
Another question.
I have been growing radishes, and have got to the point where they need
thinning. Is it okay to just pull them and eat the whole thing, in a salad?
I have tried the leaves and they are nice and peppery, and would go well in
a leaf salad, but i was just wondering if i might come to any harm!?
Thanks, in advance..
emma
who has just moved into a house with a rubble site for a back yard and grass
growing _everywhere!_
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In article <6juprs$27c$1...@news.ox.ac.uk>, Emma Hanks
<eha...@ermine.ox.ac.uk> writes
>In all the expensive salad bags that you can buy in the supermarket, along
>with raddicchio, endive and other levaes, there are little plantlets called
>Lambs lettuce. I would love to grom these but do not know what they are
>really called, nor where to get them.
It's also called CORN SALAD.
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>I have tried the leaves and they are nice and peppery, and would go well in
>a leaf salad, but i was just wondering if i might come to any harm!?
No, I shouldn't think so, they should be ok to eat.
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Emma Hanks wrote
>In all the expensive salad bags that you can buy in the supermarket, along
>with raddicchio, endive and other levaes, there are little plantlets called
>Lambs lettuce. I would love to grom these but do not know what they are
>really called, nor where to get them.
>
under the name Lambs Lettuce - try Dobies, or if that fails, T&M or
Chiltern. It grows wild in Britain, so it's easy to grow. It has tiny
blue flowers - very pretty.
>
>Another question.
>I have been growing radishes, and have got to the point where they need
>thinning. Is it okay to just pull them and eat the whole thing, in a salad?
I don't let them get to that stage! I always sow the seed separately,
about an inch apart. It's not too much bother, and that way all the
seeds grow into edible radishes.
I usually plant a row of radishes in the same drill as any other veg
seed I'm planting. They germinate quicker than most others, and show
fairly quickly which bits of the garden you've planted (I've never been
good at labelling rows or anything).
AFAIK the leaves are not poisonous, so there's no reason why you
shouldn't try them. Might be a bit rough, though.
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Alan J Holmes
In article <6juprs$27c$1...@news.ox.ac.uk>,
Emma Hanks <eha...@ermine.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>Another question.
>I have been growing radishes, and have got to the point where they need
>thinning. Is it okay to just pull them and eat the whole thing, in a salad?
You can eat the whole thing and come to no harm at all, unless
you've just sprayed the things with some foul chemical.
Personally I tend to be careful when sowing, to sow the seeds
individually at about the right spacing, that way I don't have to
thin later.
>who has just moved into a house with a rubble site for a back yard and grass
>growing _everywhere!_
Which is how almost every garden starts!
Don't be despondent it'll all come right in the end!
>You're mocking me, aren't you?
How did you guess!(:-)
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