Lettuce

June 23rd: Market bought lettuce, they look very succulent and lush. Potted in to a plastic troth and offered some protection in the mini-green house from the pouring rain, must be summer then.
Slug pellets added.

June 28th: Signs of mould showing on the slug pellets, have removed them.
 
July 4th: The lettuce seem to be suffering big time, the outer leaves have wilted and died leaving these weak looking plants. We've had lousy weather, little sunshine and stacks of rain, this may be a factor, I shall leave them outside now to get as much natural light as possible.
August 23rd: From the leafy lettuce they started out as they formed a more compact pointed plant that I think are the type known as Cos. Outer leaves removed reveals crunchy crisp inner leaves that the Mrs enjoyed.
September 14th:

This is what happens when left to their own devices. These 'Cos' lettuce which are usually just about nine inches tall have now reached 18 inches.
October 7th: Now standing at 31 inches high they no longer resemble the original lettuce in anyway other than a couple of leaves at the base of the plants. Just stunned that a lettuce can do this.
           
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