Lettuce Container Garden Progress

Lettuce Container Garden Progress

April 29, 2011, 5:05 am
Filed under: Backyard farming, container gardening, greenhouse gardening, organic lettuce | Tags: backyard farming, container gardening, greenhouse gardening, organic lettuce

April 28, 2011.  Above is the lettuce in my greenhouse.  It is a loose-leaf lettuce which is great because you pick the lower large leaves while the plant continues to grow.  You can see 3 of the $1.77 Wally World coolers that I filled with good soil last fall.  Around the beginning of January I planted the lettuce seed.   It did sprout and start slowly but didn’t get really active until March. Then it sprang into action long before anything was really growing outside at that time.  I have been picking lettuce for weeks now.

If you want to play the “Where’s Waldo” game, you can probably identify: a) the 2 outdoor solar lights (I have stuck into the containers for night-light),  b) curled parsley and the ph meter in the foreground, and c) do you see the pea plant growing out of the lettuce?  I planted peas at the same time I planted the lettuce, just to see if it would still germinate because it was an old package of seed.  To my surprise I did have some peas that made it!  Yesterday I harvested peas to put on the salad I take to work each day.

I have all this lettuce and still Lots of lettuce seed left.  I paid less than $2 for the package of lettuce at Hirsch.  Now there is a bargain.

Also, Last night was the Fun Run sponsored by the local hospital and folks, it was fun; the weather was awesome!  I debated which to carry; a camera or a bottle of water.  In the end, the water won so I don’t have photos.  But, I will post some as soon as the PR dept. releases them.   It was just 5K  which is 3.1 miles, and I walk that on my treadmill all the time but you know what? It is different when you are going up hills, and doing a run-walk.

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