Let-tuce Be!

Q: what happens when you plant all your lettuce at once?
A: you have one hell of a lot of salad greens to eat!

Woman (me) isn't allowed to eat raw food stuffs (according to my very Zen acupuncturist), so Man and the two gorgeous kids have to eat the lot...
Mind you, they do look absolutely stunning in their greenhouse plot. Fresh, shiny, full of goodness and - not a minor detail - no slugs!(The lettuce eh? Not Man and kids!)

And, to be honest, they DO taste better than the shop-bought thing. Raw food stuffs-ban or not, I tried a mouthful.

Still, this beginner's mistake will not be made again!
And so we come to the next urgent question: do we have to polinate our tomato flowers ourselves, or do they do the deed themselves? So far we've only grown tomatoes out of doors (with some good and some disastrous results), helped by our polinating friends the bees. So it's back to question time at the BBC...trying to find answers.