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Salad Days: How to Sow, Grow, and Harvest Your Best Crop of Lettuce Yet

April 5, 2012 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

A gardener triumphantly harvests a head of Garden Babies butterhead lettuce

It can be hard to get excited about a salad. Especially in winter, when laziness prevails and a “salad” consists of a handful of mixed organic greens narrowly rescued from slow suffocation inside a plastic box. It’s okay. Even though we can grow lettuce all winter long doesn’t mean we must. After all, it was […]

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: lettuce

Now harvesting: mid-July

July 19, 2011 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

Would you look at that craziness? Someone ought to get their plot under control. Oh wait, that’s my whacked-out bed. The arugula is flowering and flopping, the radishes have flower stalks as thick as woody perennials, and the lettuce is so crowded it’s getting claustrophobic. Despite the seeming neglect, I’ve actually been harvesting from this, […]

Filed Under: My garden, Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: lettuce, radishes, salad garden

Now harvesting: mid-June 2011

June 16, 2011 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

Last year I decided to introduce a series of blog posts I called “Now Harvesting.” Every week or two, I chronicled the food coming out of my garden. I thought it would be a good way to identify lulls; times when my garden wasn’t producing to its full potential. It would, I thought, help me […]

Filed Under: My garden, Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: french breakfast radishes, garden ferns lettuce, lettuce, Now Harvesting, red sails lettuce

‘Garden Babies’ Butterhead lettuce

August 22, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 6 Comments

How much do I love ‘Garden Babies Butterhead’ container lettuce from Renee’s Garden? To put it in Grade 3 terms – I would marry it. I’ve never grown lettuce so… perfect looking. It’s like a Whole Foods produce manager sneaks onto my balcony every morning, mists it gently, picks off any errant flecks of dirt […]

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: butterhead, garden babies, lettuce, renee's garden

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