growing lettuce, was Digest Number 4915

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At 9:13 PM +0000 4/21/10, zurumato wrote:

>This summer I really want to make a stronger effort to grow my own food.

>

> So far the lettuce is doing well. I planted them in rows about 25

>of them. I hope I don't have to buy lettuce at all this summer and

>save me some money!

>

 

I usually don't eat lettuces -- I prefer kale and other greens -- but

I ordered some seeds for a " stem lettuce " that doesn't bolt in the

summer and stays crunchy. I'm looking forward to trying it. When I

grew some lettuces that I got as tiny seedlings from a fellow

gardener, I couldn't keep up with eating them -- several bolted and

got bitter before I could eat them.

 

I'm also looking forward to trying a " podding radish " that's grown

for seed pods rather than for the root.