lettuce
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Someday I hope to visit Buffalo Ridge Orchard in Central City, which is near where my spouse’s family settled in Iowa after the Civil War. Their farm store is opening for the season today and this spring truism appeared in their newsletter, “This week we have all the makings for a wonderful salad and charcuterie… Read more
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I harvested the rest of the first round of lettuce before it bolted. The last few years, I’ve been growing lettuce under row cover and it has fewer bugs and better growth than when I exposed it directly to the elements. A gardener does what works and this does. That afternoon I separated leaves and… Read more
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Instead of getting the garden in by Memorial Day, I moved the date to June 20 when summer begins. I have five plots laid out, plan to skip one this year, and may skip part or all of another. Large amounts of rain kept me out of the spring garden. The shelves in the greenhouse… Read more
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When there were decent heads of organic iceberg lettuce at the grocer I bought one. We usually don’t eat lettuce unless we grow it. Iceberg lettuce is much maligned and actually pretty good. It made a nice winter treat. I placed the unopened bag on a refrigerator shelf where it rested for a week. It… Read more
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This year’s spring lettuce crop beat expectations. I harvested a lot and the heads are healthy-looking. I set a wheel barrow with lettuce at the end of the driveway to share the abundance with neighbors. Only a couple found homes but I’m happy to place any of it. I’m not really marketing either. I seem… Read more
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A retro post from April 21, 2012. We can’t force language to mean what we want. There is a social aspect of words and meaning that is undeniable and inflexible in the day to day parlance of natives. While over time, meanings change, and old words gain new meanings, when we talk about our salad… Read more
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Today I planted Belgian lettuce. There is nothing particularly “Belgian” about the seeds. According to my maternal grandmother it is called Belgian lettuce because it is planted March 2. It’s the tradition and that’s that. I planted arugula as well because when everything is mixed together in a salad it will taste great. I planted:… Read more
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The morning was brilliant. Not only the sun, but life all around us as I worked in the garden on what has become a rare sunny morning this season. The sky is now clouding up with scattered thunderstorms forecast this afternoon. We are in between storms. I direct-planted Early Scarlet Globe Radishes from Ferry-Morse, 25… Read more
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On Monday I inspected the garden plots and the ground remained too cold and wet. Later in the week I made the first dig and the soil was clean of frost the 10-inch length of the divot. There were earthworms too. We’re getting close. I finished pruning the apple trees and began to make a… Read more
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Holy cats it was windy yesterday! My to-do list was long, the weather sunny and dry, and danger for frost long past. It was time to focus on planting. The blustery day took its toll long before everything was erased from the white board. As readers can see from the diagram, indecision plagued execution of… Read more
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