Little Gem and winter harvests

Today I planted out in the greenhouse border Little Gem lettuce which I sowed a three weeks ago. They join spinach and pak choi, also recently planted out. Under the protection of the greenhouse, together they will provide us with fresh green leaves through the winter from November to March. I pick a few leaves from several plants as needed and fresh leaves will grow to replace them. They do remarkably well even in the cold of winter. There are some winter varieties of lettuce but I find Little Gem quite hardy, probably because it is compact and has quite robust leaves. The pak choi and spinach are also both reliable crops for growing and harvesting over the winter. In March both will insist on flowering and run out of steam. But by then we have early spring crops coming through.