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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 169143" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Serious suggestion about lettuce - grow some. I planted mignonette (you can get red or green), as well as cos, iceberg and oak lettuce. The mignonette and oak especially, you can treat as a growing supply, you only pick a leaf or so, and leave the rest. I'm the only one who eats red mignonette so I just left it growing and whenever I was making a salad sandwich, I would go pick another couple of leaves.</p><p></p><p>Eventually the lettuce bolted to seed but I left it until the seed had set, then gathered what I could.</p><p>Then baby lettuces began coming up in other pots and even between the pavers! I did the same thing again - harvested what I needed from the outer part and left the rest to grow.</p><p></p><p>I grow my herbs and vegetables in pots mostly, our soil is very poor here (almost pure yellow-white sand).</p><p></p><p>Lettuce seed also does well if it's been chilled (ie sow it in winter for a spring crop). In Sydney we often have to put our lettuce seed in the fridge or it won't germinate, although my lot sure did!</p><p></p><p>Another suggestion - a worm farm. Educational for the kids, plus it feeds your plants (the worm castings as well as the liquid that comes out). Worms LOVE lettuce!</p><p></p><p>I saw a really good backyard ecosystem on an Aussie TV gardening show. Here is a link:</p><p><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1809099.htm" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1809099.htm</a></p><p></p><p>The area they describe is similar to ours - awful soil, so you give up and try something that doesn't use the soil for anything except support.</p><p></p><p>I'd like to set up something like this too, but we'd have to net it in with a roof and walls, to keep the wildlife out of it! Cockatoos can be very inventive when they're bored and want to get at our house or your garden. We've given up with gutter guard - the cockatoos keep pulling it out and throwing it on the ground.</p><p>But I put a bottomless bird cage over my lettuces and they can't get to them!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 169143, member: 1991"] Serious suggestion about lettuce - grow some. I planted mignonette (you can get red or green), as well as cos, iceberg and oak lettuce. The mignonette and oak especially, you can treat as a growing supply, you only pick a leaf or so, and leave the rest. I'm the only one who eats red mignonette so I just left it growing and whenever I was making a salad sandwich, I would go pick another couple of leaves. Eventually the lettuce bolted to seed but I left it until the seed had set, then gathered what I could. Then baby lettuces began coming up in other pots and even between the pavers! I did the same thing again - harvested what I needed from the outer part and left the rest to grow. I grow my herbs and vegetables in pots mostly, our soil is very poor here (almost pure yellow-white sand). Lettuce seed also does well if it's been chilled (ie sow it in winter for a spring crop). In Sydney we often have to put our lettuce seed in the fridge or it won't germinate, although my lot sure did! Another suggestion - a worm farm. Educational for the kids, plus it feeds your plants (the worm castings as well as the liquid that comes out). Worms LOVE lettuce! I saw a really good backyard ecosystem on an Aussie TV gardening show. Here is a link: [url]http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1809099.htm[/url] The area they describe is similar to ours - awful soil, so you give up and try something that doesn't use the soil for anything except support. I'd like to set up something like this too, but we'd have to net it in with a roof and walls, to keep the wildlife out of it! Cockatoos can be very inventive when they're bored and want to get at our house or your garden. We've given up with gutter guard - the cockatoos keep pulling it out and throwing it on the ground. But I put a bottomless bird cage over my lettuces and they can't get to them! Marg [/QUOTE]
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