I'm planting a salad tonight. It's perfect weather to start a fall salad garden. Lettuce and greens hate the hot weather of summer and most gardeners know that spring and fall are the best times to try and grow lettuce greens. With the right timing and method you can have fall salads right into November. A container makes the ideal place to plant a fall salad garden. You can choose any size, but just make sure it will hold at least 12 inches of soil. I usually plant several early fall salad gardens in various size pots. I mix and match the greens, even add some radishes and green onions. Preparing your container for a fall salad garden Choose a pot at least 12 inches deep. Make sure there are drainage holes and then add some loose rocks
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It's just several varieties of lettuces in one seed packet. I usually plant my mesclun blend in a pot by itself and then just keep picking and cutting through the fall. I will start one pot of mesclun about 2 weeks after the first to have successive picking. Then there is the leaf lettuces and the romaines; those typical lettuces that people associate with salads. There are many varieties to plant with Black Seeded Simpson being a traditional and favorite green leaf lettuce. Lollo Rossa is my favorite red looseleaf with dnd Rubens is a baby variety of red romaine that does well in salad garden containers. And finally add some Butterhead lettucs like Boston, Bibb or Buttercrunch. These curvy little heads of lettuce mature in around 3 weeks also and are a delicious addition to any salad garden. I also plant radishes and onions to complete my fall salad garden. French radish blend Flamvil, is a mild tasting favorite of our family. Slather a piece of fresh baked white bread or French bread with cold creamery butter and slice young French radishes on it for a delicious radish sandwich. Your grandparents probably ate their radishes much the same way. That's it, a fall salad garden can be yours with just a couple of hours of work. I'm off to plant …show more content…
Vegetable gardens need much more cultivating and digging than flower gardens. It is an excellent idea to make sure you, the vegetable gardener, choose vegetable gardening tools that fit your weight, height, and musculature. Spades with long handles are difficult for short statured people to use, and a taller person doubling over a short hoe will surely cause a backache. Before buying that tool you need to try it out first for size. When you pick it up it should feel well balanced, the handle needs to fit your grip with ease and the working end should not be too heavy. Most importantly don't buy everything all at one time; you need to start out with only the essentials: A sharp edged square-ended spade for digging. A round pointed shovel and four pronged fork for mixing. A steel rake is good for smoothing or breaking up soil. A hoe is for cultivating, weeding, and opening seed furrows. A trowel is for transplanting vegetable seedlings. A watering can for use after transplanting. Garden and soaker hoses, and sprinklers for general watering. A wheelbarrow is an added bonus particularly if the vegetable garden is situated some distance away from the storage shed or the house. Visiting your local home and garden center, garden nursery or on-line will surely convince you that you need a variety of
It's just several varieties of lettuces in one seed packet. I usually plant my mesclun blend in a pot by itself and then just keep picking and cutting through the fall. I will start one pot of mesclun about 2 weeks after the first to have successive picking. Then there is the leaf lettuces and the romaines; those typical lettuces that people associate with salads. There are many varieties to plant with Black Seeded Simpson being a traditional and favorite green leaf lettuce. Lollo Rossa is my favorite red looseleaf with dnd Rubens is a baby variety of red romaine that does well in salad garden containers. And finally add some Butterhead lettucs like Boston, Bibb or Buttercrunch. These curvy little heads of lettuce mature in around 3 weeks also and are a delicious addition to any salad garden. I also plant radishes and onions to complete my fall salad garden. French radish blend Flamvil, is a mild tasting favorite of our family. Slather a piece of fresh baked white bread or French bread with cold creamery butter and slice young French radishes on it for a delicious radish sandwich. Your grandparents probably ate their radishes much the same way. That's it, a fall salad garden can be yours with just a couple of hours of work. I'm off to plant …show more content…
Vegetable gardens need much more cultivating and digging than flower gardens. It is an excellent idea to make sure you, the vegetable gardener, choose vegetable gardening tools that fit your weight, height, and musculature. Spades with long handles are difficult for short statured people to use, and a taller person doubling over a short hoe will surely cause a backache. Before buying that tool you need to try it out first for size. When you pick it up it should feel well balanced, the handle needs to fit your grip with ease and the working end should not be too heavy. Most importantly don't buy everything all at one time; you need to start out with only the essentials: A sharp edged square-ended spade for digging. A round pointed shovel and four pronged fork for mixing. A steel rake is good for smoothing or breaking up soil. A hoe is for cultivating, weeding, and opening seed furrows. A trowel is for transplanting vegetable seedlings. A watering can for use after transplanting. Garden and soaker hoses, and sprinklers for general watering. A wheelbarrow is an added bonus particularly if the vegetable garden is situated some distance away from the storage shed or the house. Visiting your local home and garden center, garden nursery or on-line will surely convince you that you need a variety of