Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Preparing for 2014 summer heat

Everybody knows the weather the past few years has had tremendous spikes with heat, cold, frost and many other weather related phenomenons. How will this years heat affect your gardening? Well, certain veggies thrive in heat others, do not. Adjusting how we garden will allow us to have a bountiful harvest. One idea is to keep lettuce and greens in containers all summer long or have an indoor lettuce garden next to the window. Keeping the plants in containers will allow you to bring them inside away from the heat, if necessary. Lettuce bolts quickly as it is. Another tip: planting new lettuce seeds every three weeks or so will allow you to replace plants incase some plants still are hit with heat.

First harvest 2014

This fresh lettuce was the first pick of the year. When pruning your indoor lettuce starts rinse them off feel free to add them too your salad. Yumm