First Fall Lettuce Harvest!

I went out to the shop to finish repainting the Catbert mailbox message, plus put another coat of polyurethane on the ceiling fan blades, and went on around to check our garden plants. I discovered that the lettuce plants were twice as large as when I planted them!

I was able to find two different kinds of lettuce to plant this fall: “Salad Blend,” and “Head Lettuce.”

I washed it and filled a gallon sized ziplock bag with the first fall harvest. We’ll enjoy a bunch of it with our baked chicken this evening. YUM!

The very best part of the harvest was that I did it standing up! I simply moved from one square to the next, happily snipping off the longest leaves of each plant, not having to bend over double, strain to reach things, or get down on my hands and knees. WHOOPEEEEEEE!

(We’re waiting for a pipe puller tool to arrive in the mail. As soon as that arrives, we’ll tackle getting out the three (I think) lengths of pipe in the ground, clearing the way for us to install the first raised bed square foot planter on the north side of the garden!)