salad round one
Apr. 30th, 2006 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdOkay! So we had salad from a few plants from the assortment I've been growing in my first ever vegetable garden. It had a lot more taste than the bag salad we usually get, and I realised after that the association I'd had with good-restaurant salad wasn't dressing related at all, it was greens-related. Plus it was super-fresh, being, well, cut off the plants about an hour before we ate it.
The garden bed
Anyway, it was pretty neat to me, I've never planted food that I've then proceeded to grow and eat. (Aside from apples from the tree at Murkworks South, but while I tended that tree a bit, I certainly didn't plant it.) Hopefully I cut the leaves down right and the three plants I cut down (leaving 2cm for growback) will indeed grow back as hoped.
Chop Chop!
It's weird how tiny the leaves look outside, then how when you get inside, they're ginormous. In that way, they're very much like the TARDIS. This confuses me, as I did not expect lettuce to be key to space-time.
We're Gonna Need a Bigger Plate
Anyway, that's a lot of fuss for just a bit of salad, but it was new to me. And tasty!
The garden bed
Anyway, it was pretty neat to me, I've never planted food that I've then proceeded to grow and eat. (Aside from apples from the tree at Murkworks South, but while I tended that tree a bit, I certainly didn't plant it.) Hopefully I cut the leaves down right and the three plants I cut down (leaving 2cm for growback) will indeed grow back as hoped.
Chop Chop!
It's weird how tiny the leaves look outside, then how when you get inside, they're ginormous. In that way, they're very much like the TARDIS. This confuses me, as I did not expect lettuce to be key to space-time.
We're Gonna Need a Bigger Plate
Anyway, that's a lot of fuss for just a bit of salad, but it was new to me. And tasty!
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Date: 2006-05-01 10:09 pm (UTC)are lettuces pretty easy to grow in this area?
Spellcheck accepts lettuces. And it seems pretty easy so far. ^_^ If you don't have it, there's a book you really need called Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades by Steve Solomon, though. The techniques are different here - much more like the UK than, say, anywhere else in the US. And even then, the soils are different in ways it's best to care about. It's really quite readable, and you can find it used for not very much money. (Or new doesn't hurt anything either. He updates the book occasionally.)