I seldom do the shopping, but when wife was out of town in early March I had to. I discovered that the local grocer was getting $2.50 for leaf lettuce. For the first time I decided to plant lettuce, and I now have about sixty plants, forty of which I am now harvesting from. It grows like a weed, and tastes better than the stuff you get at the grocery. Unfortunately, the Texas heat will soon require that I make a final harvest of this season’s crop fairly soon. But I can replant again in September, and I fully intend to.
Plant some heat tolerant tomatoes, if you can keep them watered, more bang for the buck and more ways to use tomatoes.
Who needs lettuce?
When the maters, cukes, peppers and onions come in, our family eats salad made of these and nothing else but vinaigrette.
Yum!
Same here. I just got back from taking the neighbors some lettuces, onions, and spinach. We hadn’t gardened in a few years but with the economy we put one this year. Start up costs were a couple of cattle panels, t-posts, seeds, and tomato plants. We may break even with this year’s harvest but after that it’ll be close to free.
Just give the lettuce a hair cut and they’ll keep producing a continuous harvest for you. Same with all leafy greens. Also, same with onions, just cut the green tops and they’ll keep growing.
I got my garden in too, but if we don’t get rain soon here in East Texas most of my garden will die. I’d say 40% of the grass is already dead in the yard. I’m spot watering the garden trying to keep it going. We need rain badly here.
Shade it and you can keep it going a bit longer.
When the days were short, I added a few hours of full spectrum grow light after sundown. It worked pretty well.
You might be able to grow a few things indoors, if the heat is too bad outdoors.