seeds in spring or fall or purchase small ready-to-grow garden plants. You can plant lettuce seeds directly in the ground or larger pots. However, you have to be careful since birds, backyard ducks, and geese can demolish your crop. Make sure to install the fence and scarecrow in your ...
29. Malabar Spinach If you love the crispy texture of lettuce and the taste of spinach, you will surely love the mild taste of Malabar spinach with hints of citrus and pepper. It can be a great addition to soups, stir-fries, and most of your salad preparations. How to Grow: Check out...
Plant successively: Re-sow crops such as bush beans, beets, and lettuce every couple of weeks throughout the summer for continuous harvest. Start fall crops in mid to late summer. Harvest: Pick crops early or late in the day. Produce will stay crisper, fresher and more flavorful than veget...
Support for garden netting can be made from 8-foot lengths of 2x2s or bamboo polls that have been sunk at least a foot into the ground. It is possible to purchase or construct a simple A-frame trellis, tie garden twine between poles or sticks, or use an existing fence in your yard....
Interplant peas with radishes, spinach, lettuce, or other cool-weather greens. In the late summer and fall, plant peas with corn, pole beans, or tomatoes that will shade them until the weather turns cool. Good companion plants for beans, carrots, corn, cucumbers, radishes, and turnips. ...
Salad leaves such as lettuce can then be grown in the shade of the frame – a clever solution for growing cool-season crops in hotter areas. Also, see our video onhow how to build a trellis and support for cucumbers. Types ‘Boston Pickling’(vine) is our favorite heirloom variety bred...
Lettuce is perfect for a garden with a shady spot because it can thrive in as little as 4 hours of full sun a day. While it doesn't take the heat well, some varieties are better at it than others. Speaking of types of lettuce, there's a lot to choose from when it com...
A summers worth of daily salads using Lettuce & Spinach from a densely planted 5 foot row of each Tomatoes forfresh salsaAND 40 quart size jars ofhomemade tomato saucefor winter from 4 plants (did I mention ours get to be over 9 feet tall!) ...
Want a garden that's both colorful and delicious? Then tuck brightly colored vegetables alongside your annual and perennial flowers. In this bed, wide swaths of ruffled, chartreuse 'Black-seeded Simpson'lettuceweave in and out patches of blueviolathat are also edible. ...
Lettuce Lima Beans Melons Mizuna Mustard Greens New Zealand Spinach Okra Onions Parsnips Peanuts Peas Peppers Potatoes Pumpkins Radicchio Radishes Rhubarb Rutabaga Salsify Shallots Sorrel Southern Peas Soybeans Spinach Squash, Summer Squash, Winter Sunchokes Sweet Potato Swiss Chard Taro Tomatillo Tomatoes ...