Thursday, July 26, 2007

New Uses for Lettuce — The Salad Days Continue

For the past few weeks, we've been eating lots of lettuce and giving bags of it away. I've brought washed and cut bags of mixed salads to people at work. Two weeks ago, I even carried the laundry basked out to the garden, cut out a very full basketful, and then created large waxed-paper bags/containers, and brought them to my brother-in-law's 40th birthday party as (unrequested and odd) party favors. (You really couldn't even tell I had cut that much lettuce!)
When I tried that new-to-me broadcast seed method, and also started the garnet oakleaf lettuce inside in the Spring, I assumed it would be like most years, when I get some but it suffers a bit and is sort of sparse and then I don't want to cut it because I like how it looks. This is by far a lettuce year to remember!

Last Saturday night we had friends over for dinner, and I thought of a new use: How about a decorative bathroom arrangement?
Greedy me, I got nervous that we'd run out of lettuce before the end of summer, so I started sowing more seeds a few weeks ago, too!

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Well Over Knee-High


On the eighth of July!
(surely was at least knee high four days ago)

To see an exciting demonstration of the pop-up sprinkler system, watch this: