“Plenty of lettuce,”
I have no lettuce growing. I planted seed in two, on the ground long planters, and think the birds or squirrels got every seed. I HAVE NO LETTUCE GROWING - I hate that. How can I have a lettuce and tomato salad with no home grown lettuce? Guess I’ll buy grocery store organic Romaine to go with my tomatoes.
Next year this will not happen - no critters will get my food.
I start lettuce inside in December when it’s iffy cold to start and thrive outside. I use the little divot trays. But you could use yogurt cups or pudding cups or something similar if you wanted. Transplant it when it’s about the size of a cotton ball if you can. I haven’t had it ‘offend’ greatly from being transplanted.
Did you get any sprouts at all from your lettuce? Could it be possible there are bugs in the soil doing the stealing?
It’s not too late to plant some more lettuce. Just make sure it’s in shade during the afternoon, and plant a variety that is heat tolerant. I usually cover my lettuce and spinach with a row cover untill they are growing pretty good.
I had success with black seeded simpson last year. I planted it in a pot and kept it shaded from about 11am on.
Other possible salad makings:
Roamine, Leaf Amaranth, New Zealand Spinach, Swiss Chard.
I’m thinking the squirrels are what got the sweet onions. That or something under ground. We have tons of squirrels and they just love the garden especially right after it’s been tilled. Nice soft dirt to bury their pecans in! And of course it’s right in the middle of where seeds were just planted. Hubby keeps saying he’s going to eliminate them because they keep getting into the shed and attic and the neighbor is saying the same but neither do anything about them. Hubby has his bird feeders out so we also have tons of birds but feeder food is a lot easier to get to so that’s fine.
I’ve told ya’ll about the woodpecker who feeds at the hummingbird juice? He’s so funny. Big thing that he is, he has to hang upside down on the feet holder thingie and balances with his tail feathers underneath. Then he cranes his neck around to get to the water. You can see how simply pleased with himself he is. I didn’t know birds could smile but this guy does, yum yum, lol.