Testimonial Category: Greens

I preach this lettuce to everyone, but this year has been almost comical. I grew a crow of it in a bed last winter that I harvested until December and then I planned to grow it in another bed this spring. It was slow to germinate in our cold April, so I ended up sowing it a second time. And that was a mistake because as soon as it got warm, they all took off. Even the winter patch, and I don’t know if the plants re-emerged or grew from seed, but I was so over-run with lettuce, I ended up donated about 40 bags to the various food pantries around. It must be wind-borne as well, because there was a small pile of hay in my driveway from my daughters horses, and I had lettuce sprout up there! I tried to transplant those ones but they didn’t like their new home. I was still kind of blown away that it just came up there. I also had it coming up in my garlic bed, which was the lettuce bed two years ago, so it seems to have gone a little rogue, but I admire its resilience, that’s what our crops need. I’m about to plant some more for a fall crop.