Happy Lettuce!

[rebbetzin]

This year my lettuce is very happy!! Here are some pictures from the other day.


This is my lettuce under the Apricot tree. The seed is a special blend from a famous restaurant, but I forgot the name of the restaurant.

Here is more lettuce in the green house next to the back door.

This is the wheelbarrow garden I planted last spring, the Italian Parsley has about taken over!!

And here is my first pea!! They are Oregon Giants that will get bigger as the weather warms up a bit.

I am itching for Spring now that the seed catalogues are coming in the mail.

 

[Patch of Heaven Farm]

They look beautiful!! :happy_flower

 

[me&thegals]

Wow--beautiful!

 

[vfem]

 

[obsessed]

I agree beautiful.

 

[RDRANCH]

I love the wheelbarrow planter! Do you drainage holes in the bottom? I have several of the metal containers without the handles or wheels and would love to put them to good use. Any info you could give would be great! Thanks

 

[rebbetzin]

I love the wheelbarrow planter! Do you drainage holes in the bottom? I have several of the metal containers without the handles or wheels and would love to put them to good use. Any info you could give would be great! Thanks

It doesn't have drainage holes per se. I put a layer of rocks, then filled it about half full with native soil, and last I put Miracle Gro Moisture Control Potting Soil. I LOVE that stuff!!!! It works so well here in the desert helping to keep the soil from drying out so quickly in our horrible summer heat.

 

[RDRANCH]

Thanks for the info I am definately going to use them this year! Try to grow things here in eastern Colorado is not that much different from your location. Summers are always very hot and dry and planting mixes with water absorbing ploymers are well worth using.

 

[setter4]

IT'S GORGEOUS!!! Makes me ache for spring as I sit here in the sub zero zone! <sigh>

 

[rebbetzin]

Thanks for the info I am definately going to use them this year! Try to grow things here in eastern Colorado is not that much different from your location. Summers are always very hot and dry and planting mixes with water absorbing ploymers are well worth using.

What I like about the new Moisture Control potting soil by Miracle Grow is that it contains a natural fiber called Coir, which is made from the outer husk portion of the coconut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coir

It holds water great! And doesn't get all soggy. I wish I could find a place that sells it for cheap!!