Growing lettuce

Keep sowing and planting batches of lettuce throughout summer

I always grow too much lettuce. I don’t feel particularly guilty about this – the excess goes to friends, the chickens and, as a last resort, to the compost heap. But I do like to eat lettuce from the garden every single day of the year and in July I am spoilt for choice.

With a cut-and-come-again types like oak-leaf or ‘Salad Bowl’, the important thing is to keep cutting it regularly so that it can regrow new