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Saturday Spotlight on Sunday – Salad Bowl Lettuce
I was wondering what to highlight this week when I noticed my lettuce seedlings which I have been growing on in pots before planting out. The Salad Bowl Red were looking particularly good and so they are this weeks spotlight. … Continue reading
Saturday Spotlight – Cylindrica Beetroot
Beetroot is one of those foods which is a strange combination of fashionable and unfashionable, Australian and yet foreign, highly nutritious and yet undervalued. In essence beetroot is a dichotomy. In Australia beetroot is used traditionally in both our ‘burgers with … Continue reading
Saturday Spotlight – Wild Rocket
I had a lot of issues with my lettuces this summer – they kept bolting in the hot weather. Thank goodness for my Wild Rocket though, which gave us lovely salad leaves throughout the warmer months. Wild Rocket differs it’s wider leafed cousin Salad Rocket … Continue reading
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Lettuces in November
I’ve been really pleased with my lettuces this Spring. I grow lettuces all year round but they seem to grow quickest in spring. I sow loose leaf lettuce seed on a monthly basis. I sow it in seed trays then pot the seedlings up into herb pots. I plant … Continue reading
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Raw Beetroot Salad
I should be working, I turned on the computer with the intention of working. But am I? Errr no. Since turning the computer on I’ve checked my emails (well that was sort of working) but mostly I’ve making changes to my AFL … Continue reading
