Growing your lettuce and basil outdoors

Sowing seeds

1 Prepare your soil by clearing all weeds and raking level, then make a shallow straight drill with the hoe or trowel and trickle water along it.

2

Carefully space out your seeds along the watered drill. Try sowing just a few seeds every three weeks to give you a steady supply.

3

Lightly cover the row of seeds by flipping a thin layer of soil over it with your hoe or trowel. Label the row with the type of seed sown.