Tom Thumb Lettuce,

[michael johnson]

Has any of you ever tried the old variety of Tom Thumb Lettuce, its a realy lovely little lettuce, small and quick to grow.
The whole idea behind it is that you can put a whole lettuce on your plate for yourself and it is just enough for one meal, sweet tasting and fresh, simular to a flat lettuce with a little buttery heart in it.

You can even grow them in pots in your greenhouse or conservatory- one to each five inch pot,

Lovely little jobs.

Cant bear these big leathery iceberg supermarket types. just like cabbage.

By the way- the best normal size lettuce in the world for flavour and crunchyness is without doubt -Webb's Wonderfull- marvelous flavour-very old variety, -only one slight problem, its a bit prone to tip burn and heart rot in the middle of july during humid periods, I once planted forty six of them in a row, and had only ate my way through about ten of them when the heart rot struck -shame because they realy are the best flavoured lettuce.