Friday, March 14, 2014

"LETTUCE" Start Container Gardening!

Tomorrow a few co-workers and I are going to meet on our day off to get a 'Game Plan' for our Rooftop Garden.  Since we will be doing mostly Container Gardening on the Rooftop Garden we have a few "from seed" hopes and dream on tap and have received our first batch of seeds from that company.

We hope to place an order with one more company for seeds soon, too!

In addition we have a few places locally that we hope to get some "starters" from so we aren't relying solely on the 'from seed' attempts.

BUT...one of the things I overlooked - and I don't know WHY - Lettuce!  You see, one of the many things we are going to do with this Container Garden/Rooftop Garden is RE-USE various things around the stations that we would never use again but have been in storage for YEARS now!  We have found MANY old CD Storage Units as well as old hand-made wooden boxes we used to hold and file different sized records throughout the years.  We will be drilling holes in the bottom and sides for drainage, too!  But because most of these are smaller - or should I say - not as deep - we are going to put herbs in them - and just today we discussed various lettuces.  From the research we've done - it seems like they would do well in the shorter containers.  So, yeah...tomorrow we will have our first worker-bee and I will report back next week with some of our progress!

4 comments:

  1. How fun, I'd like to plant more lettuce this year too. Can't wait to see how the garden comes out.

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    1. Thanks! My main problem right now is I'm itching so bad to get started and we have to wait until the end of May/Beginning of June here...sigh...

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  2. Oh this garden planning is fun. I will live vicariously through you ;p

    ps. love the new look of the blog!

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    1. Thanks for the feedback on the blog theme! I live vicariously thru you on your blog as well! Living in a place with better weather and more access to whole foods and healthier alternatives! Different sights and scenes! LOVE IT!!!!

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