Winter Planting Lettuce
by Sarah - September 6th, 2010.Filed under: Thompson and Morgan. Tagged as: winter gem lettuce, winter lettuce.
Winter Lettuce Thompson & Morgan. You can plant some types of lettuce even at this time of year.
Winter Gem Lettuce can be grown from September to January in a greenhouse or in a cold frame. This is perfect for ensuring you don’t have to pay money for expensive lettuce during the winter season. It’s a plant that grows well as low temperatures and shorter daylight hours which is essential for any winter plant.
A must for the gardener who’s trying to save money. A packet of seeds costs not much more than one lettuce will over winter and with 150 seeds in the packet that’s an awful lot of lettuces you could be growing!
It’s also something to keep you nipping out to the greenhouse during the winter months – as if you needed an excuse to get out of the house and into the garden!
During bright days ensure there’s ventilation.
Think how impressed you’ll be to sit down from January onwards to eat your own home grown lettuce!
Lettuce : Cos Little Gem 12 plants £3.99
Gardeners’ favourite. Sweet, small cos. T&M’s easy starter plants are expertly grown, taking away all of the worry of raising your own. Delivered ready for planting so that you can enjoy bigger, earlier and tastier vegetables. Our quality vegetable plants will be despatched at the correct time for planting. Please note: Delivery is subject to plant size, adverse growing conditions during production may delay despatch schedules.
RHS Vegetable Collection : Lettuce : Tin Tin 1 packet £2.69
A slightly larger Little Gem type which is similar in flavour, but Lettuce Tin Tin has slightly more ‘bubbled’ leaves, giving it a more distinctive appearance. Lettuce Tin Tin is ready to harvest approximately 11 weeks from sowing with delicious crisp, ‘romaine’ hearts that stand well during hot summer weather. Suitable for ‘cut and come again’, baby leaf or mature hearts. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection.
RHS Vegetable Collection : Lettuce : Little Gem : Pearl 1 packet £2.19
(Summer/Autumn)Sweet, crisp flavour. Lettuce Little Gem Pearl is a special selection of the ever-popular Cos variety. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection. Compact plants produce small, sweet, crisp hearts of outstanding flavour. Perfect for the garden or growing in containers.
Lettuce : Winter Gem (January-May) 1 packet £1.99
A specially bred Little Gem Cos for sowing from September to January and for growing in a unheated greenhouse or in a cold frame for overwinter production (not suitable for growing outdoors). Lettuce Winter Gem has delicious small, crunchy, sweet hearts equal in taste to Little Gem, will be ready to harvest from January onwards, for use in winter salads.
Lettuce : Little Gem : Delight – Duchy Originals 1 packet £1.99
Compact, ‘Little Gem’ producing a crisp, dense heart. Lettuce Little Gem Delight has a delicious sweet flavour. Some downy mildew tolerance.
Lettuce : Cos : Little Gem 1 packet £1.69
One of the earliest varieties to mature. Lettuce Little Gem produces small compact plants which are packed with a crisp sweet heart and little outside leaf. Lettuce Little Gem is very useful for cloches too.