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January 12th, 2010

Lettuce growing in my cold frame.
When I built my 50 dollar greenhouse over a year ago one of my goals was to be able to have something fresh to eat out of the garden or greenhouse every day of the year. Well, it’s been about a year now, and it hasn’t even been very hard to do.
Here is what I’ve learned so far –
Despite what you might have read, lettuce spinach and other salad greens are not really particularly quick crops. Sure you can have a pretty little stand of plants in about 6 weeks or so under good conditions, but in cool weather they don’t really get productive until they are almost 3 months old. Yes you can harvest a few salads out of the thinnings, but the young plants » Read more: Salad Every Day