My lettuce and Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss books helped me with a new way of learning English when I was a kid. I only read two of them as they were not available in my country. But they are awesome and you should get one of them at your local library. As for my lettuce, besides de ones I planted in raised beds (about 20) I started to transplant them to containers I had around. I transplant 4 (my everyday task) every day so that if they don´t get so big, I can still have lettuce every day. I think I´ll have lettuce year around, with this method.My lettuce, of course, are pesticide free. I water them with drinking water and then just wash them a bit over a pot so that I water the rest of the plants with it. I could gather some leaves now, but I´ll wait until they are bigger. Meanwhile I bough an iceberg lettuce and I´m eating it mixed with arugule from my garden.

I read plenty of Dr. Seuss books when I was growing up, but never heard of that one. Oh well...How long does it take for lettuce to get big enough and do you plant one to replace one that you use?

I planted several seeds in a pot. Then, after the seedlings had about 4 leaves, I used a knife to uproot them, a few plants at a time. I planted each one at one container, and used good soil. I decided to plant 4 plants a day ( there are lots of seedlings) so that I would be able to have more than enough to eat every day, even if they never grew as big as the bought ones. I haven´t eaten anyone yet, but I sure will replace them. When lettuce ar planted each one in one pot, they grow at a bigger speed than the ones that have their roots tangled and have not much space. By the way, I took a lump of seedlings, but I only planted the best ones, the ones with more roots.

We are at the end of Autumn here and my lettuce are growing beautifully. I also have arugule so I can make a nice salad by just picking them from my garden. Where I live we have a mild climate so I will grow some cold weather crops in Winter and just put a transparent plastic over them so they are not hurt by frost.

Oh , how i envy you the more. Imagine having those veggies for a salad at anytime you feel like making one. Lucky you for having a garden filled with those veggies and plants. Keep up the green thumb and the enthusiasm to plant.

Thanks for the Best response mark.

and nice meaty roast...

Hmmmmm....Monsanto conspiracy, maybe? I'm only half kidding, ya know.

I planted the seeds from an overgrown red lettuce. The green ones were not intended. I suppose genetics had something to do with it. But thwe green lettuce are growing faster than their sisters.

Please don´t mention Monsanto. It´s a 4 letter word for me . In my country, the senate (without consulting us) accepted to sell all chilean vegetable seeds DNA. No comments. No we will have to buy our seeds from them or go to jail, I suppose. SHAME!!!

I tranplant 4 each day o even if they don´t grow to be as big as bought ones, I´ll have a salad each day. And they will be fresher than the ones in the super.

i PLANTED TOMATOES AND SWEET PEPPER LAST sPRING AND ATE WONDERFUL TOMATOES ALL sUMMER. tHE LAST ONES, TINY, WERE MADE INTO SAUCES.

Sorry for caps. Not mant. My finger in wrong key

It seems that it rains in some places and it doesn´t rain at all in others. We have an extremelly dry year.

McElligot's Pool and Yertle the Turtle were two more of the ones I loved. Of course, I'm in the States, but I'm glad you had a chance to learn of them!

I wonder is they are online to download now. I only read a couple because it was not available in my country. But it opened new ways of using language and I loved it. I know by heart parts of it although English is not my naTIVE LANGUAGE.

Hi sweetie, If you came to garden here, you´d get better results I stole those marigold seeds from Claudia´s plants and planted them also. I did not expect them to do this well either.

I´m sure I´ll be able to eat the first lettuce in 2 to 3 weks more

Thanks, Paula. This is the first time I plant this kind of lettuce and I´m very proud of how it has grown.

I just remembered how the verse went at the book. It was a wonderful children´s book. I do love my gardening and I´m very proud of it

I think that if I keep on transplanting 4 lettuce every day (5 minutes of work), I´ll have lettuce to eat every day

Wow! That is so cool! And healthy, too! Can I have some? I like the red ones. They're a bit bitter, but they're pretty.

The thing is I´m SO happy with my lettuce, and So proud, jak. I didn´t even know whether they would live as I transplanted them when they were too small. So I also wanted to share this and discovered on the way that I was bragging

Ok, because you said you were bragging and I think we all do at soemtime in our lives so dont worry about what people think or say.

I feel as if they were my "babies". It´s So rewarding to plant a seed, watch it come out, transplant it and they watch it grow.