[jtuck]

We had our first wilted lettuce of the year tonight! This is one of my favorite dishes from the garden. Our early stuff is doing really well, but I have some weeds to pull after this rain.

[ArkansasHunter]

I love wilted lettuce. We use bacon grease from frying up a pan full of bacon. Drizzle it over fresh lettuce and man it so good you'll howel at the Moon.

Corn bread or Hot water bread is good with it too !!! ...A.H

[jtuck]

Yep, bacon grease and mix in some cider vinegar and sugar (I like mine sweet). We had baked potatoes and grilled brats to go with it. Mmmm...mmmm!

[Deersniper]

Nice crop you have going. Looks like plenty of manure around there for your soil. My lettuce is about half that big. I'll have to try wilted lettuce soon. Thanks!

[Cross Hair]

I am way behind on lettuce this year... crappy rainy then too windy! LOL

I keep meaning even to just start a flat pot of it growing on front porch. I like to stagger plant so not harvesting too much at once. Its a real quick and easy hydroponic to grow too. A buddy owns a garden store and grows it floating on styrofoam on top of his goldfish tank, no chemicals or anything, grows off the nitrates in the fish water, its all it needs. However, I will keep wilting garden lettuce grown in my dirt and have turned down eating the fish poo lettuce.

[jtuck]

Our lettuce had started to rot last week with all the rain we've been having. Luckily it came out of it and we have lettuce, radishes and onions running out our ears. As soon as it starts to die, I plant more in mineral tubs that we feed cattle out of, and use the raised beds for other things.

I was finally able to put the rest of my garden out last night. It has been so wet lately that I haven't been able to get in the big garden. One of these days I'm going to convert to all raised beds.

Quote:       Originally Posted by Deersniper

Nice crop you have going. Looks like plenty of manure around there for your soil.

When we are finished feeding hay for the winter, we push all the manure and old hay up into big piles and let it sit for a year, turning from time to time with the tractor. By the next year it's composted nicely and is great to till into the garden or fill up raised beds with.

[White Rook]

We put out a small garden sunday in our backyard. I had two Topsy Turvy Planters with Tomatoes growing really nice hanging in the backyard. It was so windy sunday, the wind broke two of the plants I had in one of the planters...Your lettuce looks really good.