It looks like the last few nights of really cold are finished for a bit so I wanted to get my lettuce planted in the garden. Also, it's less than four weeks until our first market day and I'm stressing about whether or not we'll even have anything to sell. Some of the lettuce seedlings were large enough that I'm pretty sure we will at least be able to have a little bit. And hopefully some radishes.
First I had to bring all the trays of lettuce out from the greenhouse to the garden. The garden is slightly downhill from the greenhouse so bringing them out isn't too bad but I did have to make three or four trips, even with my big garden cart.
Notice all the paper pots? Many thanks to my DH for rolling them for me! I love using paper pots because I just drop the entire plant into the hole, just making sure all the newspaper is beneath the surface so it doesn't wick the moisture away.
I think I went a little overboard this year. I added several new varieties of lettuce and even planted some crisp head lettuce. I will have one full row of leaf lettuce and another row of mixed crisp head and butter head. And probably another partial row of mixed varieties/types. We really do sell a lot of lettuce at market so I hope we will again this year or we'll be eating salads three times a day!
The rest of the lettuce will have to wait until next weekend to get planted now. I had really wanted to get it in the ground because we are supposed to have three days of rain now.
Tomorrow if it doesn't rain we are getting a load of manure from a friend of my son. They live nearby which is really nice since we used to drive over an hour to get manure just so someone can load it for us. We're just too old to be handling that. It's hard enough scooping it off the trailer into the pile. Thank goodness they have a front end loader to keep it turned!
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