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!
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| A week after planting |
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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. |
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| This is a week's harvest - enough for a salad and at least four sandwich wraps |
add some cherry tomatoes from my deck planter
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and I have myself a salad! |
Thanks, D!
