The Carrot Tops Allotment Blog!

An Allotment blog exploring gardening and growing your own produce

Category: Lettuce

  • Tom Thumb Lettuce: Review

    How do you review a lettuce? Probably one of the hardest things to do if you’re a blogger seeing as they all seem to taste relatively the same and generally serve the same purpose. If you’ve been following this blog, you’d have seen I had decided to grow Tom Thumb…

  • Planting Lettuce: Tom Thumb

    Over the last few weeks I’ve been growing Lettuce Tom Thumb, and now they’ve reached the stage where they’re big enough to be planted out.  They’re about the size of a tennis ball, which generally speaking is a good indicator of when they need to be planted out. Lettuce is a…

  • Separating Lettuce: Tom Thumb

    Separating lettuce is a quite a fiddly process and in the past I’ve found that I’ve run into trouble with lettuce because they bolt all at the same time and I’m left with a mountain of lettuce that needs to be eaten before it goes off. When I planted the Tom…

  • Sowing lettuce: Tom Thumb

    Sowing lettuce is the next thing on the list to do at the allotment and the variety I plan to sow is an old favourite – Tom Thumb (or black seed as it’s otherwise known as).  I know that Tom Thumb lettuces date back as far at the 1850’s, but having…