How to grow lettuce: sow, plant, protect plus the Charles Dowding picking method

Lettuce plants can produce for months when harvested by hand (no knife!) and kept tidy (fewer slugs!), I show you the method here. You also see the results of an experiment with different composts for sowing, how to plant and the use of covers to protect from weather and pests. Plus the beds are no dig for few weeds and high quality growth.
Varieties at the end are Saragossa and Bijou.

00:00 Introduction
01:01 Mix of compost, an experiment
08:25 Pricking out a week later
13:11 Planting out
22:31 Fleece and watering
23:39 Harvesting

Seed Saving video youtube.com/watch?v=ZVb9JIAXJxU

Filmed at Homeacres by Edward Dowding edowdingfilms.onfabrik.com/portfolio, spring 2017.
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