He Won’t Brag, So I Will
Just one head of lettuce provides salad for twelve. Can your lettuce do that?
My husband would tell you that he had nothing to do with it. Someone else sowed the seeds; he just stuck the seedlings in the ground. God provided the rain. Yeah, but who was up there weeding?
Shaded by the broccoli, the lettuce isn't bitter, even though it's pretty nigh bolted.
About Kathy Purdy
Kathy Purdy discovered the joys of writing in fourth grade, when she started corresponding with a former classmate. She's been writing letters ever since, first on looseleaf, then electronically, and now as weblog entries. That makes you, the blog reader, her pen pal. Her first independent (though frustrating) attempts at gardening were made in high school, though the gardening bug didn't bite hard until her mid-thirties, when she found herself mistress of a rural home on 15 acres. • USDA Hardiness Zone:4 • AHS Heat Zone: 3 • Location: rural; Southern Tier of NY • Geographic type: foothills of Appalachian Mountains • Soil Type: acid clay • Experience level: intermediate • Particular interests: colchicums, narcissus, cottage gardening, NY native plants, gardening with/for children
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If I bring a dressing can I come over and sample?
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That Mr. Purdy is going to make husbands everywhere envious! My goodness what a yummy head of lettuce!
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Still picking lettuce here in Athens in mid-summer. One nice thing about a cool summer: nothing bolts but then peppers don’t grow either
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Twitter: @clayanlimestone
I don’t grow lettuce Kathy, but that is some garden crop to be proud of~~gail
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Despite ideal weather I had horrible luck with lettuce this year. A planted a whole packet and got maybe 5 heads out of it. I’m attempting another batch of it heading into fall.
Crossing my fingers it works out.
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I’m still getting lettuce, but the heads don’t look as big and tender as that! What a guy!
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Beautiful! Great idea to plant among the broccoli. Ours is mostly bolted. I want to try a second crop from seed. As cloudy as it’s been, it just might work! Enjoy the salad.
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Twitter: @ssupak
Yep, good lettuce this year! I plant just outside the drip line of a big maple, so the lettuce only gets a half day of sun (if there’s sun, that is). That slows the bolting down a little.
Also good up here with this continuous June Gloom is arugula, collards (planted very early), and other greens, although the Mizuna bolted right away… not sure why.
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Twitter: @suburbangarden
That’s awesome! We need to convince him he should be proud. Weeds deprive plants of water & nutrients, so removing them allows a plant to grow bigger and stronger.
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Twitter: @mycornerofkaty
Wow, so that’s what lettuce can look like if it’s given the right growing conditions! Need I say that mine looks NOTHING like that?!
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It gets too hot here too fast to create anything like that. Glad you’re so proud of him. Enjoy that luscious salad.~~Dee
Twitter: @cityslipper
Awesome gorgeous giant lettuce plants. If mine grew that big, I’ve no doubt I’d be wrestling 6-inch slugs off of them. Kudos!
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Kathy, the lettuce is just lovely – and in the photo you look as delighted as a bride with a bouquet ;-]
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
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I am so impressed! Mine always bolts before it gets that lush.
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Ah, ha, this cool wet summer is good for growing something! Not tomatoes, alas.
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Twitter: @ZanthanGardens
That’s probably more lettuce than we get out of our entire mini-veggie garden in a season. Wow! I’m looking forward to winter when we can have lettuce again.
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Twitter: @back40feet
My lettuce doesn’t do that either. It feeds two people every once in awhile and we call it good. But we do grow it all year long , which is good.
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Touche. We can’t grow it all year long, not with our winters. Eliot Coleman comes close, though.
Twitter: @indygardener
Nope, my lettuce can’t feed twelve people! That’s amazing that you are still eating lettuce from the garden in July.
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