{How Does Your Garden Grow - Lettuce Watch}

Joining in again with Annie at Mammasaurus for her How Does Your Garden Grow linky (was lovely to see you in person at BritMumsLive albeit very brief!!).

Here's Glasgow Mummy with "Lettuce Watch"!

Thursday evening pre-BritMums live...

...Sunday evening post-BritMums live!

What a remarkable difference in just a few days!!! The baby lettuces are changing every day, and R & I are now able to enjoy yummy fresh salads with our homegrown lettuces!!! So impressed with myself!

Ready for their close-up!

Transformed into an amazing salad!! Tasted brilliant too!!

If you go back my previous post here when I planted these babies, then you'll see an even bigger difference! That's just in 2 weeks!!!

The only thing I've done is put down some slug pellets and I've watered them every evening (apart from when I was in London for BritMums Live but Bex from Olive Dragonfly popped over to water them in my absence - thank you!).

I know you'll probably be fed up with my vegetable chat, but I'm seriously so chuffed. Most things I plant tend to die really quickly!!

Anyway, I can highly recommend Rocket Gardens and I'll definitely be buying from them in the future. (This isn't a sponsored post by the way, I just wanted to share this brand with you because I've had so much success with my purchase!).

{How Does Your Garden Grow}

Last minute as always, but here's my contribution to Annie at Mammasaurus How Does Your Garden Grow linky.

Each time I visit the garden centre I learn something new.

This week it was that for certain plants, it's best to combine the compost with some gravel. Who knew!! Certainly not me. Apparently by adding the gravel to the compost it will improve the drainage.

I had chosen a new lavender to plant given that my one from last year was kaput!

So off we went back to the house to get potting...

At the bottom of our chosen pot, we put some larger stones over the hole. Again this is to help the drainage:

We then filled this with a mixture of compost and grit:

Then in with the lavender, and we covered over the top of the compost with some more grit as I thought it was prettier!

Here's the littlest hard at work...!!

And in other gardening news...

The baby lettuce are coming along nicely

Here's the newest addition to the garden :-)

{How Does Your Garden Grow}

This week we took our son to his school induction.

It was a daddy day, so he was brought to the school by his dad and was delighted when he spotted me.

He asked me if I could be there every time it's a school day. I nearly cried. 

I'm finding it very difficult not being with them and we're yet to agree on the arrangements moving forward for childcare so the uncertainty is not helping.

He was ill last week and asked if I'd look after him all the time and I've been getting a lot more questions about why mummy and daddy don't live together.

Anyway, at times like this I am a true believer that a bit of fresh air can help to lift ones mood.

R & I went for a jog, and then to my delight my box of various lettuces arrived from Rocket Gardens.

Inspired by Annie at Mammasaurus, I had ordered the Quick Growing Salad Collection - apparently I can be harvesting tasty salads in just a few weeks after planting!

Watch this space to see how I get on!

Rocket Gardens... we sow, you grow

This week I was also at an open garden and I was inspired by all the vegetables and fruits that were being grown.