MsCowpea wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 10:37 am Karen, how old are you if I may ask? I thought you had to be very young to harvest that huge, beautiful container of lettuce. I totally appreciate (and admire) those greens as that is a lot of work if you are clipping leaf by leaf to harvest over a long period of time.
Despite my age (and decrepitude ) I still love to experiment. And I ,particularly, like to read all I can on historical vegetable gardening methods.
I just wish I could lessen the workload of the TOMATOES -i.e. planting WAY TOO MANY despite the earnest resolutions
to cut back.

MissS wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 10:49 am Hmm, you sound like a cougar/shark to me...

MsCowpea wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 10:49 am Karen, Just saw the question about the pics. You could just start a thread and repost them and then if that is too much for the sites capabilities they could handle as necessary.

Tinkerbell wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 11:35 am Your greenhouse is just wonderful. I'm so sorry about the minors. Do you do anything to control them?

MissS wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 11:06 am The PM is still in your outbox because the recipient has not read it. That way you know if they have read it or not. Once read it will no longer show in your outbox.

TheDante wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:06 pm Once we had to be away for a few days to visit my dad who had taken ill and came back home… and this was how much I had to harvest … a 210 litre (48 gallons?) rainwater barrel!

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MsCowpea wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 3:32 pm AZ. since you already have the pool you might give it a try. Double check you have enough holes. And your weather must be nice now. Hot weather is no good. Buy potting mix not heavy soil. Fertilizer is up to you but follow their directions. Depending on growth in a couple weeks you could supplement with liquid as well but
this may not be necessary. They grow really fast. I used 'homemade' compost because it is better but few people have. Be careful of Black Cow--I have no luck with that stuff in containers. I think compost could be an optional ingredient or try store bought. Just not too much.

Now you can use transplants or seeds.
SEEDS: try two packs of seeds per pool. That is a lot of seeds. (seed companies love me) They just don't put in that many in. I use a lot of seeds as I want to prevent or crowd out weeds which grow here FAST. You can use less next time. Sprinkle the seeds evenly over the mix. Take your potting mix and put it in an onion bag, you know one of those mesh bags, and sprinkle it very lightly over seeds maybe 1/8 inch. Gently water. Don't let it dry out.

TRANSPLANTS: plant like the pics.
I use both methods. I just bought some head lettuce 6 pack transplants at Lowes ( Bonnies). It will never form a head in south florida but it is a very tasty and crunchy lettuce.
Here's arugula. Now that is a lot of seeds. I would cut back next time. That many seeds/ plants could do Karen's/Dantes entire garden. I harvest between the baby leaf and full grown stage. Cut off what you need about 1 inch from the surface. Or pull entire thing. Regrowth-sometimes good/sometimes bad. If you do try it hope it works out.
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MsCowpea wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 5:35 pm I have tried High Mowing but I need the bigger packages. Can’t remember if they offer those.

Unbelievable, you found a pool! That is like me finding the matching sand box.

MsCowpea wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 2:03 pm Wow, that looks great. Very pretty. And you planted some wonderful varieties. Looking forward to seeing how it does.
Good luck. Since you are growing elsewhere I know you know to keep it moist waiting for seeds to sprout. Hope you get lots of salads.

I forgot to mention that brassicas cut for salads grow faster so they can sometimes overwhelm a lettuce next to it.
That’s why you never want a seed salad mix that has lettuces and brassicas together. I think Johnny’s explains all that.
Johnnys has GREAT salad mixes. they separate their lettuce mixes and greens mixes but you want to figure out when to plant each one so that they can be harvested together. Hope that makes sense. And I just tried a company called Adaptive Seeds -the shipping was very reasonable.