Growing my own salad

I love the idea of harvesting lettuce from my backyard for my salad - apart from the fact that I know where it came from, it is also very fresh and tasty - very satisfying overall.  I had started growing my own salad this year, thanks to my serious gardener friend who  offered me nine lettuce plants that she had pulled from her vegetable garden.  I planted them in organic soil in an old planter liner, and in two weeks, I was able to harvest enough for a salad.  This is despite a random attack by the resident raccoon.  Somehow it just dug up the plants, chewed up a few leaves and never came back - thank goodness!

A week after planting

Three weeks after planting - weekly harvests, and almost no work at all.  
I must have watered them three times this month, thanks to the rain.  I applied an organic fertilizer that came in spikes.

This is a week's harvest - enough for a salad and at least four sandwich wraps

 add some cherry tomatoes from my deck planter

 
and I have myself a salad!

Thanks, D!