Here's a fresh salad for you, ZZ!The lettuces are still not growing very quickly, but I can cut enough to provide each of us with a couple of salads a week, with some left over for rabbit treats. The green onions are getting really long roots! I've just about used up one pot of green onions, but still have another to go. That should be enough to last us until we head north. Almost all the radishes have been pulled. They were lovely, probably the largest, sweetest, most perfect radishes I've ever grown. They ranged in size from that of a quarter to a half dollar. I'm torn on whether to plant more, as we'd like to go home extra early this year. There might not be time for even radishes to mature, but if they didn't, Cookie could still eat the tops.
I have never been very successful with radishes and all the packets tell me 'easy to grow' !!! I have a husband who is not very fond of lettuce so I generally make my salads from spinach, chard and rocket. Your lettuce looks so good though. Diane
ReplyDeleteWell it never hurts to plant more seed. You never know if you will get stuck there a couple extra weeks. Seed is pretty cheap. And Cookie will appreciate it if you do leave on time.
ReplyDeleteDiane, I'm usually a failure at growing radishes, too. I can only grow them down here. At home, they get eaten by worms or slugs, the roots either stay small or split when they're big enough to pull.
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Daphne.....and, I have a ton of radish seeds!
Plants some, then if they don't mature before you head North leave them to go to seed. Then next fall you can return to self seeded radishes, maybe (if the wild life doesn't make salad of them). We are having our typical warm winds after bitter cold weather today. It is currently 48f, yesterday it was 20f.
ReplyDeleteHello, David! Haven't seen you around for a while.
ReplyDeleteWe're hoping to sell this place before we head home, but I'd be happy to let everything go to seed for new owners. That's where I'm getting my lettuce, I left it to go to seed last spring.
So nice to see some colorful young salad greens :)
ReplyDeleteVery nice!
ReplyDeleteThat looks so yummy.
ReplyDeleteOh, I would love to see you gardening year-round somewhere! What would you do for dental work?
ReplyDeleteI'm lettuce-envious. We still haven't worked out the bird problems! Your leaves are lovely.
I would plant them! You are having success and the worst that would happen is that Cookie would get some extra treats. Go for it!
ReplyDeletewhat variety of radishes do you plant? I haven't been able to find a variety that is sweet. I'd say, " what the heck plant more radishes".
ReplyDeleteYummm!!! That's one thing I forgot to buy before our 'Epic Southern Snow storm hit - lettuce!
ReplyDeleteI think it's going to be so wonderful to be able to walk out back and cut what we need for dinner. Altho with 6 of us I am going to have to get creative with some additional container ideas..
Hugs!
~Wendy / sassyb
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ReplyDeleteThank you very much! They look absolutely delicious.
You're welcome, ZZ. Just wait until I get back north to my bigger garden! Last year I grew something like 42 pounds of lettuce.
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ReplyDeleteWow! 42 lbs!
ZZ, that was the wrong amount. I just looked at my garden log, and it was actually 45.31 pounds. That was just the WA garden. The AZ garden did quite well last year, too. I don't have a food scale down here, so I don't know just how much I harvest. Here's a couple of photos from last year's tiny AZ lettuce garden, which was growing much better than this year:
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