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Lettuce- Black Seeded' seeds
Lactuca sativa
Loose-leaf variety
Fast growing
Slow bolting
Looseleaf variety. A fast growing variety that has light green crinkled leaves. Great flavour; good for salads. Does better in harsh weather than other varieties; slow bolting and cold tolerant.[Library Service]

They do look very light but it's a nice look imo - so light and clean. No slug/bird damage.

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gators!

No (tried raised garden beds) because she-who-must-be-obeyed set the policy for the veggie patch for many years namely it was hers and not mine. She finally realised she'd made a horrible mess and handed it over to me 15 years later!

I've hit paydirt with my veggies after all these years of gardening and it's due to my "magic mulch" - a combination of decomposed grass (hay)(which I have in abundance) and leaf mould.I was just using leaf mould (broken down leaves etc from the compost) but it was a very dense medium that baked into mud brick in a pot in summer and the plant roots couldn't go anywhere. The penny dropped when I saw YouTube video about someone growing spuds and their growing medium was very loose and I needed to find something to do with all the grass I was cutting so I combined the grass (as hay) with the compost decomposed leaf material and...bingo! Some plants love it and go beserk particularly cucumber. Capsicums turn up their noses a bit as do tomatoes but they grow in it. As I heard a gardening expert say once - your plants tend to get enough nutrients from whatever soil you use but what they really need is an easy medium for their roots to grow in!

It's a rough garden but some of those "weeds" is mint.

Copper strips for slugs and snails. Squirrels and raccoons need something bigger.

Possibly but if the grubs prove a problem I go out at night with a torch and nose pliers and...it's the killing fields. Problem is we have these critters called leopard slugs...giant spotted slugs...which are apparently good for the garden because they eat other slugs and so I leave them alone but if one of those gets near your plants I'd imagine it would be like a tractor eating all in its path!

"You're plucking them regularly?" - not as regularly as I'd like. I grow the veggies my wife wants me to and then she doesn't eat them ffs! Thanks to her telling me how thrilled she'd be if I could grow cucumbers...we had cucumbers coming out our ears and I had to eat most of them! Next year I'll definitely grow less. And ditto lettuces, beans.