Lettuce

[Richard Tarleton]

Courgettes missing here, some tomato varieties, otherwise OK.....
I need raw veg nearly every day so buy lots of crunchy salad foods, but lettuce isn't usually one of them - prefer butterhead, rocket, pea shoots or cress along with radishes, cucumber, antipasti, sliced yellow peppers and so on. I'm gluten-free and have salad with almost every meal. If ever the fresh supplies were seriously interrupted I would be in trouble...

OT, not owning either a deep freeze or a microwave, and cooking everything from scratch fresh, a great aid to healthy eating - like you jayne we consume mounds of veg, salads and pulses...

[Lat-Literal]

Maybe we need more hydroponics?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/agriculture/farming/10321390/Thanet-Earth-the-farm-of-the-future.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1025689/Welcome-Thanet-Earth-The-biggest-greenhouse-Britain-unveiled.html

[Alain Maréchal]

Colleagues in Canterbury tell me that there are shortages of salads and vegetables, even though this http://www.thanetearth.com/ is a short distance away. Something is wrong about the procurement model.

[ahinton]

Colleagues in Canterbury tell me that there are shortages of salads and vegetables, even though this http://www.thanetearth.com/ is a short distance away. Something is wrong about the procurement model.

Oh, please don't! The local Tesco here used to stock the wonderfully named Thanet Earth's "Kent Temptation" tomatoes that could be relied upon for good flavour and texture at any time of year, but that stopped some time ago, hence my comment about lack of decently flavoured tomatoes right now.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Colleagues in Canterbury tell me that there are shortages of salads and vegetables, even though this http://www.thanetearth.com/ is a short distance away. Something is wrong about the procurement model.

It's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Flay]

It's just the tip of the iceberg.

Lettuce pray it gets no worse

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Oh, please don't! The local Tesco here used to stock the wonderfully named Thanet Earth's "Kent Temptation" tomatoes that could be relied upon for good flavour and texture at any time of year, but that stopped some time ago, hence my comment about lack of decently flavoured tomatoes right now.

That's more likely to be the tactics of the Tesco Buyers - a life-form for whom I have little respect.

[ahinton]

That's more likely to be the tactics of the Tesco Buyers - a life-form for whom I have little respect.

It's not, actually - or at least it wasn't; they couldn't sell enough of them in my local store so they dropped them but were still selling them in other stores and, having contacted the growers, I learnt that it's a variety grown exclusively for Tesco.

[ahinton]

Lettuce pray it gets no worse

Oh don't talk such radish, you scallionwag!

[Dave2002]

Oh don't talk such radish, you scallionwag!

Let us romaine aloof from commenting cos such remarks may contain little gems of truth. I'd butterhead off for me coat now.

[Richard Tarleton]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Let us romaine aloof from commenting cos such remarks may contain little gems of truth. I'd butterhead off for me coat now.

- genius!

[cloughie]

Let us romaine aloof from commenting cos such remarks may contain little gems of truth. I'd butterhead off for me coat now.

So what does that leave you?

[ahinton]

Let us romaine aloof from commenting cos such remarks may contain little gems of truth. I'd butterhead off for me coat now.

Brilliant!

Leaves on the line and all that (although you can't beet leaves) - and speaking of lines, isn't having to queue cumbersome just because of this shortage? Crisis? What - er -crisis? These pesky growers need a good pepper talk! It's nuts! There must be a simple solution; after all, it's not rocket science...