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Your pictures are yummy! You could bring me to grow some vegetables !
Vero, I highly recommend it! Home-grown veggies are the best kind.
oh thats true guys.We eat a lot of veggies here in the house. Save money and your family is healthy if you have your own garden.
Genny, yes, you definitely save money, and as long as you raise everything organically (or as close to that as you can), it’s even healthier!
Ah, I can imagine how good that will look in a salad…. See, you just did make me hungry!!!! *giggles*
Lovely photo with the contrast between the dark and the red.
Captain Lifecruiser, it hasn’t gotten quite big enough for me to consider it salad-worthy, but I can’t wait until it does!
The beginnings of a salad! It looks good.
We will soon be surrounded by acres of several different varieties of lettuce, red included. It comes up so fast, and the workers harvest it within 10 days of its sprouting. It will be in the markets the same day. Always fascinating to see, and one advantage of suburban living.
Aiyana
can i have some salad now…neat one.Mine is up .
Aiyana, wow — harvest to market in the same day — that’s good local eating! It is amazing how quickly lettuce sprouts — it never ceases to surprise me.
Lutchi, come on over! I’ll even whip up some salad dressing. :-)
the various packets of lettuce we happily planted in early september now look somewhat like remnants of ursula’s cave of the condemned from disney’s version of the little mermaid ….
but the mint and basil keep coming!
maybe i should change my name to the lettuce killer?
Well, to be fair, I took one close-up picture of the, um, one of three tiny pieces of lettuce that actually grew. It’s ridiculous. I don’t know what was wrong with those seeds, but they clearly didn’t take.
Don’t change your name — I’m way, way too fond of your name! Even if you haven’t proved yourself worthy of it this year…which is a very, very good thing. :-)
You strongly warn against baking frozen pizza on the cardboard backing like somebody who’s done it before (I have, too).
Don, in fact, I have. But only once, and it didn’t take me very long to figure out the error!
Looks yummy! Quick where’s the vinaigrette.
Curtis, definitely! They’re going to be tasty leaves, all dressed up…
looking at that baby lettuce some how filled my spirit with hope that the tiny lettuce plants in my garden will get to be the size I imagine them to be. thanks
Wayne, I hope it happens for you! :-)
I love growing cos lettuce but this looks very pretty. is it tasty?
Sara from farmingfriends