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Lettuce help

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Chilli18 · 05/07/2020 18:45

Hello i got given some lettuce seedlings for free. Can anyone tell me from the pics what variety they are? Do i cut the leaves to eat now or dig up as a full lettuce? Sorry im totally clueless?

Lettuce help
Lettuce help
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BeBraveAndBeKind · 05/07/2020 20:07

They look like butterhead lettuce. I'd grow them on until they're bigger heads of lettuce.

Beebumble2 · 05/07/2020 20:24

Are they now in the ground?
We always cut them as young leaves, the danger of letting them heart up ( like a shop bought lettuce) is that if there’s a dry spell they will bolt and produce a flower stalk. Then you can’t eat them.
Cutting as young leaves they are sweeter and have more flavour. It’s easy to sow seeds and have another crop ready in a few weeks, we do this almost all the year round.

Chilli18 · 05/07/2020 20:47

Thankyou for your replies Smile. I originally put them in seedling trays, then the bigger pots which they are in now. I wasnt sure whether to move them into my new 'lockdown made' raised beds to see if they got bigger or leave them where they are.

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