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Post by chrysanthemum on Feb 18, 2023 21:28:37 GMT -6
I did a really big harvest of Crawford lettuce today for the purpose of giving away. I filled a gallon bag with leaves to send home with one of my daughter’s friends who was visiting today. Then I gently crammed (if one can cram gently) as much as I could into my largest mixing bowl to take to church tomorrow to let folks take home what they will. I’m pleased to have an abundance to share right now.
I was also pleased that my younger daughter asked me if she could just eat some lettuce leaves out of the garden as a snack. She really likes this variety in this stage where it’s tender and doesn’t have bitterness. She told me that she may be in the process of turning into a bunny rabbit.
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Post by woodeye on Feb 18, 2023 23:03:42 GMT -6
chrysanthemum,
You have every right to be pleased with such an abundance of lettuce. That quantity of lettuce is still far into my future, but it's a goal that I have, I love salad. Way to go!
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Post by chrysanthemum on Feb 28, 2023 7:51:31 GMT -6
My lettuce bed continues to thrive. The cut-and-come again method is working really well, and I’m able to give away big harvests of lettuce these days. Earlier this year I seeded out some herbs in the one place in the bed where I had bare patches of soil. I’m having lots of dill seedlings pop up, and I believe a bit of cilantro and perhaps parsley. Our weather is getting up into the high eighties early this week. I’m giving the lettuce a bit of extra water to help keep it cool.
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Post by woodeye on Feb 28, 2023 16:26:20 GMT -6
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Mar 1, 2023 6:28:09 GMT -6
chrysanthemum,
I enlarged those photos. That lettuce bed looks so nice! Well done! I don't think I've ever had a lettuce bed turn out looking so beautiful and inviting as that one looks to be. Makes me want to fry up some bacon and whip up a big batch of wilted lettuce just for old-time's sake.
Fresh lettuce always reminds me of my Grandma Fannie. She was born on the first day of Spring in 1898. Her birthday was on March 21st, so we always celebrated that with a big family get-together, fried chicken, the last of the previous year's canned corn, fried or mashed potatoes from her cellar, wild onions with eggs, freshly baked biscuits, brown beans, cornbread, and a fresh, hot, batch of crispy fried bacon with vinegar and sugar, poured over a heaping pile of fresh lettuce.
Such wonderful memories!
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Post by chrysanthemum on Mar 1, 2023 7:17:35 GMT -6
That sounds like a neat annual celebration of your grandmother’s birthday.
I don’t believe that I have ever had wilted lettuce. I may have, but I can’t specifically recall it. Wilted dandelion greens and all sorts of other cooked greens, but never lettuce. Maybe when the weather cools again a bit, I’ll have to give it a try.
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Post by macmex on Mar 1, 2023 9:22:03 GMT -6
I was 19 years old before I encountered wilted lettuce. Haven't hardly had any since but it sure was good!
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Post by amyinowasso on Mar 2, 2023 9:32:05 GMT -6
I think my aunt's recipe for wilted lettuce called for a vinegar and sugar mix in the dressing. I was a teenager. Someone told me vinegar helped sunburn. I went to the kitchen, found a bottle and used a cotton ball to apply. Turns out my mother had premixed the vinegar and sugar in that bottle. I was first sticky and then crusty.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Apr 27, 2023 22:23:42 GMT -6
Here’s a photo of my Crawford Lettuce as of April 26th. It’s starting to bolt, but I’ve still been getting harvests. At this point, though, I think I’ll be letting it go to seed. It’s so crowded, though, that I haven’t decided if I might not cut some and just use it for mulch. I’m open to ideas.
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