Okay, I learned something from my mother-in-law today. While she was here she recommended to plant lettuce in stages. Plant a few seeds every few weeks. That way, each week you are able to have lettuce, because once it grows in, it doesn’t grow back quickly.
Here is a great inexpensive tip to labeling your garden, that looks pretty good. My husband did this one!
Make Your Own Garden Labels
- Cut a the bottom of a wire hanger off.
- Form it into a square without one side. (as pictured above)
- Cut seed label names off and tape them to the top of the overhang.
Do you have any gardening tips to share? Please leave them for us.
Next up… planting potato spuds.
lettuce won’t grow well once it gets hot here, so i do three things:
1–i do cut-and-come-again growing, in which i harvest the outer leaves every few days and let the rest of the plant grow. this yield enough lettuce for a family meal and doesn’t require harvesting and storing an entire crop.
2–plant lettuce under taller things like a pea tent, so that the lettuce can have some shade and hopefully stay cooler longer.
3–i have tried planting lettuce and other leafy greens on the north side of the house, this works some but really i get a better result if i just pull it all up when it is done and sow the fall and winter crops when those spaces are available.
I love these! Thanks for sharing! How do you keep them from getting wet when it rains…that’s the thing I had the most problem with last year. I am considering laminating them somehow….what do you do?