A complete bed of lettuce is collapsing because of root aphid which I presume is because of the dry weather before this spell of wet weather. I say presume because the last year my garden suffered badly with lettuce root aphid was 2012 which as you will remember was wet, wet, wet. So now I have root aphid, blight starting and, all of a sudden, slugs everywhere.
I have planted out the lettuces I thought I may not need as far away as possible from this affected bed and am hoping that the small plants will escape but have a small amount of chicory, endive and spinach in reserve just in case. I seem to remember in 2012 more or less every lettuce plant in the garden succumbed. What do you think, Charles? Do the new plantings stand a chance? Judging by the amount of slugs around it may not matter in any case!