.and in the veg patch the first sowing of lettuces already being picked.
Gosh but you're early; outdoor variegated lettuces too. You have the ingredients for honeymoon salad there ( lettuce alone )
They're all Italian seeds
Are you in your pasta years now? Teeth is it?I've grown seeds from that range in pasta years. The largest variety of tom's I've ever managed was 15, with sth like 12/13 either side of that year a decade or so ago. Very difficult keeping track but fascinating differences between them. Nowadays, two F1s and four common types are my lot. That was when my local (but national) garden centre used to sell off seeds at 50p a packet at the end of August. Chaotic rummaging in big bins took ages but yielded nice expensive F1s in all veggies, esp. tom's and capsicum.
Can you recommend summer lettuce?They're all Italian seeds from the Alps and early varieties. It being pretty mild and wet for the most part they're doing really well and they're more than hardy enough to survive April frosts. The bright green ones are called canary tongues, Lingua di Canarino! They will all go to seed though so I'm just about to plant some more summer tolerant varieties. I usually get salads through to Christmas and some to over-winter but with the hose pipe ban last summer I gave up.
https://seedsofitaly.com/seed/lettuces/
Can you recommend summer lettuce?
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Are there any lawn experts in here? I could do with a few pointers on sorting out mine.
Picture?
I've mown it a few times and manually scarified it with a rake as best I can. I've also given it some combined moss and weed killer but I'm not sure how effective that has been.
There are clear tufts of what look like different grass or weeds or something, they don't show up too well in pics but are very clear to the naked eye. I'm wondering whether to dig these out as I was planning on reseeding the whole thing anyway, does this sound reasonable?
What do you think to digging out those weird looking bits Gav? There are already some massive craters further down from what I can only think where an old concrete washing line post has been taken out, so was going to fill those in before overseeding anyway.
My only issue is time, whilst the weather has been decent here the past couple of weeks, I've also worked the last 14 days straight so not been able to get anything done hence it being a bit late.