Little gem

[Lorcan]

has anyone else had an issue with lettuce recently, specifically little gem in my case but you might find different. It's almost impossible to peel the leaves off as usual, like the inner leaves just won't separate properly. I had a couple of sweet gem a week or two ago, they weren't great, but it seems to be the little gem that's the worst. Asda and Tesco, although they may just get them from the same place.

 

[rp1993]

has anyone else had an issue with lettuce recently, specifically little gem in my case but you might find different. It's almost impossible to peel the leaves off as usual, like the inner leaves just won't separate properly. I had a couple of sweet gem a week or two ago, they weren't great, but it seems to be the little gem that's the worst. Asda and Tesco, although they may just get them from the same place.

Yes this is what ours was like this week, I think it’s an M&S one but I did feel like I couldn’t get the leaves off much sooner than normal!

 

[Lorcan]

I gave up and started breaking off chunks instead not that the pigs seem to mind, but still.

 

[Betsy]

When I have Little Gem lettuce for my piggies. I just cut it straight down with knife so that the piggies get strips of it. Much less fiddly than peeling off the leaves. I can't be bothered with all that faff!

 

[Wiebke]

When I have Little Gem lettuce for my piggies. I just cut it straight down with knife so that the piggies get strips of it. Much less fiddly than peeing off the leaves. I can't be bothered with all that faff!

Same here...

 

[PigglePuggle]

I've given up on little gems lately for just that reason, the piggies have a leaf each hand fed for breakfast and I couldnt get the leaves off so I chopped it then got that "you expect us the eat that?" pigeye look.
So we have romaine now, the romaine is good at the moment

 

[Lorcan]

I don't remember the leaves ever being so difficult to just peel off before, though. Sure, once you were right down to the middle maybe but this is even the big outside leaves that have no business being difficult lol. Maybe it's no wonder everywhere seems sold out of sweet gem...

 

[Lorcan]

I've given up on little gems lately for just that reason, the piggies have a leaf each hand fed for breakfast and I couldnt get the leaves off so I chopped it then got that "you expect us the eat that?" pigeye look.
So we have romaine now, the romaine is good at the moment

They'll eat it fine whatever way you give it but they can get a tad territorial over chunks. No idea why the leaves are fine and the chunks not, but there you go. As for hand feeding, I give them whatever I have two of to hand. Tonight it was green beans. Camowen kept trying to turn round with this bean in his mouth that was longer than he was, but I find it easier to give them something to distract them and then toss the rest in.

I do have a habit of not preparing the veg downstairs though. If I take it up on a plate I forget to bring the plates back down then I get very confused after a week when there's no more plates. Pepper and that I slice downstairs but it goes into a bag with the other veg to take upstairs. That makes me sound lazy, oops.

 

[YvonneBlue]

I have given up on Little Gem lettuce at the moment, they are not nice at all. Generally, Romaines seem ok though.

 

[Lorcan]

I've got 3 or 4 packs of little gem still in the fridge (actually 90% of my fridge is taken with vegetable matter, lol. Since I don't drive I end up buying a couple weeks worth at once). Might need to think about switching next time round, or at least find out if sweet gem is back again. Romaine uses a lot of fridge space