Here are a few pics of the
green and red romaine lettuce starts I transplanted the other week. I have them spread out among three boxes, as at the time the neighbors' pet deer was still pillaging gardens. (I still have not seen her recently ... I had nothing to do with that, either!) I figure next week we can probably start eating a salad or two.
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| green and red romaine lettuce, with a few volunteer pepper plants, likely datil |
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| green and red romaine lettuce in with basil and last year's green onions |
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| last year's salad box, with the last few red romaine lettuce plants |
In this last box, you can see a little bit of our composting-in-place going on. Kitchen waste like coffee grounds, filters, egg shells, and vegetable scraps get put into future beds or existing beds that need a little boost. Meat scraps go to either the dog or the chickens. Dead leaves and grass clippings round that out.
2 comments:
I'm jealous . . . I have the hardest time starting lettuce from seeds. Yours look great!
These are "cheater" starts I bought at Lowes. The lettuce seeds are still in the freezer, including the seeds I harvested this summer from the *ONE* good plant that I started from seed. I am not even sure which variety it was ... it just looked great and tasted great, a bright green loose-leaf variety.
Spinach is what I have had trouble growing from seed - and we love spinach.
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