lettuce – Ron's Ramblings

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Gardening – Weather Delay! : Herb Direct Seed & Lettuce Transplant

Enter the first full week of spring 2023. Our garden plans? Transplant lettuce to the hoop house and direct seed a few herbs in the new herb beds we prepared last fall. Mother Nature says; “Not so fast Skippy.”…we wake up Saturday morning to see 6″ of snow on the ground and another 4” yetContinue reading “Gardening – Weather Delay! : Herb Direct Seed & Lettuce Transplant”

Gardening – Leafy Greens: A Great Start

We began our 2023 outdoor garden in late January…indoors. 18 cells of spinach started on January 29. Only 15 cells germinated, but there are multiple spinach plants in several cells. We Started them in 3.5″ deep seed starter trays. Spinach does not like to be transplanted too often, so they will go directly from seedlingContinue reading “Gardening – Leafy Greens: A Great Start”

Gardening: Cut and Come Again and Cut…

The beauty of planting leafy produce is enjoying several regeneration harvests. Our basil produces tasty herb all year long. Almost as dependable for multiple harvests from one planting is lettuce. In previous blog posts we talked about several early crops that were being harvested first. Radishes were first in and first out and first resownContinue reading “Gardening: Cut and Come Again and Cut…”

Gardening: Harvesting Lettuce and Spinach

After a couple of weeks off, 10 days on vacation, we are back to discuss operation Green Thumb. Harvesting the 60 day plants has begun. Today: Lettuce and Spinach. Bonus. We learned two more gardening terms! “Bolting” and the “Cut and Come Again Method”. Bolting is a term describing the flowers that form at theContinue reading “Gardening: Harvesting Lettuce and Spinach”