{"id":47136,"date":"2021-10-11T20:41:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T20:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=47136"},"modified":"2021-10-11T20:41:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T20:41:36","slug":"my-aim-is-to-eat-salad-leaves-from-the-garden-at-least-once-a-day-with-as-wide-an-assortment-as-possible-but-nearly-always-with-lettuce-as-the-key-component","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=47136","title":{"rendered":"My aim is to eat salad leaves from the garden at least once a day, with as wide an assortment as possible but nearly always with lettuce as the key component"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>My aim is to eat salad leaves from the garden at least once a day, with as wide an assortment as possible but nearly always with lettuce as the key component.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you also factor in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/search\/site\/lettuce%20eaten\">lettuce eaten<\/a> by my family and friends, plus those that bolt and end up either being fed to the chickens or thrown on the compost heap, I suspect we grow at least 1,000 lettuce plants a year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Over 40-odd years that makes for a fair bit of experience.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1960s when I was growing up, lettuce was invariably accompanied by hard-boiled eggs (which I hated and  <a href=\"https:\/\/tupodio.com\/\">https:\/\/tupodio.com\/<\/a> still dislike to this day), beetroot and tomato and served with salad cream or, on special occasions, homemade mayonnaise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>         British gardening expert Monty Don shared his advice for good germination, slug protection and a steady supply when growing lettuce.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pictured:\u00a0Monty with a selection of lettuce leaves from his garden<\/p>\n<p>The concept of a green salad or even salad dressing was still lodged on the other side of the Channel.<\/p>\n<p>But fresh lettuce, picked, washed, dried and eaten within the hour, accompanied only by good olive oil and either balsamic vinegar or lemon juice, salt and pepper, is a dish worthy of anyone.<\/p>\n<p>I never tire of it.<\/p>\n<p>   RELATED ARTICLES               Share this article Share   Of course there is lettuce and lettuce.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In fact there are four kinds of lettuce &#8211; cos (or romaine), loose-leaf, butterhead and crisphead (or iceberg).<\/p>\n<p>Cos are the most common and include garden favourites like \u2018Little Gem&#8217; and \u2018Lobjoits Green&#8217;; I also grow a good red cos and \u2018Winter Density&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The leaves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techandtrends.com\/?s=grow%20upright\">grow upright<\/a> and tight and the combination of crispness and rich flavour makes it a must for any garden anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;div class=&quot;art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS home&quot; data-version=&quot;2&quot; id=&quot;mol-6485b050-e984-11eb-b575-8bf6224790b6&quot; website Don&amp;apos;s pals benefit from his bumper lettuce crop each year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My aim is to eat salad leaves from the garden at least once a day, with as wide an ass\u2026","protected":false},"author":16559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47137,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47136\/revisions\/47137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}