casual vegetable gardening
Some things I put in the ground exactly where I want them. Other things I put in once and let nature take care of the rest. Way back in the Paleozoic era I’d bought some red romaine lettuce plants. There were more than we could eat, and a few went to seed. They looked a little unkempt, but the little yellow finches loved the seeds and made a ruckus in the yard as they fed on them.
After the next rains, tiny lettuce plants began to sprout all over. The plants that were in reasonable spots I let grow, and the baby greens from them were as tasty as the red leaves were great to look at. I let a few of those go to seed again, and the cycle started all over. Here are a few plants from the current crop, providing a nice red counterpoint around a green rosemary:
Vegetable gardens so often seem to be disciplined, military spaces with their perfectly aligned rows of exactly the same plant, one after another. Instead of that, why not plant the veggies like they’re an extension of the garden? And why not let some of them go to seed and repopulate themselves?
March 09 2008 04:54 pm | Categories: gardening • my garden | Tags: lettuce • reseeding • vegetable gardening
TopVeg on 10 Mar 2008 at 12:47 am #
Rosemary flavoured lettuce look great! TopVeg
fernmountain on 10 Mar 2008 at 12:34 pm #
I love self seeding lettuce! Nature always knows the perfect germination moments.
I am having lettuce envy….to cold yet in the mountains.
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