Lettuce Pray  

my grandmother use to take new lettuce ,onions & radishes if she had them & pour hot fried meat grease over it. not good for you i'm sure but very tasty.

It looks great! I'm not a big lettuce eater so probably won't grow any with the garden I'm planning for next spring, but I've done it in the past.

To add to what antiquelady said, the German/Pa Dutch people serve warm lettuce with the same dressing they serve dandelion greens and sometimes spinach... it's a hot bacon dressing that is thick and VERY tasty. I've put it over boiled potatoes.

Hmmm.... haven't had that in years. I need to look it up.

I totally understand the joy of picking your own fresh lettuce! I've grown lettuce almost every year for a couple of decades. One year I went nuts and grew about 20 plants. I had lettuce coming out of my ears! There are only so many ways you can eat lettuce! I won't do that again!!!

I eat a lot of salads, so I love growing fresh lettuce. One seed costs a LOT less than a head of lettuce! And you are so right about growing them in a pot. You can grow them just about anywhere. I actually had one growing on my kitchen windowsill!

I plan to throw in some dandilion greens next Spring with my lettuce, fresh radishes and spring onions. Yum!!!!!!!

Now, where does one get "bacon seeds"? LOL

I grow lettuce in my garden. Every summer we make my dad tons of lettuce soup. i swear its the yuckiest stuff in the world...cream, lettuce, bacon and some other stuff. But he loves it and its got to be garden lettuce used to make it or he wont eat it.

I had a nice lettuce crop last fall. I plan to plant some more like in a month or so.
I think I will plant some broccoli too in about a month. I'm not having to much luck so far with the tomatoes anyway. I hope they will turn red. Anyway, i like veggies from the garden.

hello ldyjarhead

now you have me wanting to throw some lettuce seeds in a flower pot and watch the lettuce grow like that. whoo hoo! what a beautiful photograph of the lettuce that you have grown. thanks so much for sharing that picture of your homegrown lettuce with us all around here at Mylot! looks easy enough to do in a flower pot as well. i guess that one could grow anything that they wanted to like that in a flower pot then? right? lol i do not have much of a green thumb and it seems like every time that i do start some kind of a plant or some kind of veggies, one of my boys will knock them over and kill them, or i water them too much or i do not water them enough. lol i am not very good at all in growing anyting. but i would like to enjoy some lettuce like that on a sandwich knowing that i have grown it like you have.

have a beautiful evening.

Hello Ldyjarhead,

Thank you for posting your discussion here and Im you did. I done the same with tomato I was sliceing a tomato one day and I was cleaning up when I just threw the bit of slice tomato and seed in a pot, it started germinated and now they are quite tall and flowering, don't know when it will start fruiting. Can lettuce be grown indoors? Thanks.


Tamarafireheart.

I have 3 lettuce plants in my garden. It's really cool to go in your garden and get something to eat.

I like the fact that the leaves keep coming back.

I also have red cabbage in my garden. The head is starting to turn into a ball. It's really hard. Red cabbage can be eaten raw in salads or it can be cooked.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Lloyd

I will wait a little later, as we are actually in our hotter months until about September, but I would love to grow lettuce. I used to plant green leaf lettuce, and red leaf lettuce. I hope to get some fall crops in, still waiting for tomatoes to ripen, homegrown are so wonderful. I will have to see what containers I have to grow some in.

You really have a green thumb. All your plants look so good. That lettuce is just crying out to be a salad lol. My tomatoes are still doing real good. The onions are doing great. The cucumber despite being the ugliest plant ever has given me 3 cukes it just looks hideous. I don't think the pot is giving it enough root space. the squash is a good looking plant but doesn't produce anything but flowers that die and fall off. my pepper plant is still giving me peppers and has gotten nice and big.