It's suddenly feeling like Spring. After a very cold weekend with lots of snow and single-digit temperatures, the weather has taken a turn for the better. Today it's rainy and cloudy and my husband is supposed to burn off the lettuce bed. He digs up the soil, piles on brush and wood about four feet deep and lets it burn down to ash. After a day to cool down a bit, it's ready to plant.
We usually put in lettuce (Black-Seeded Simpson or Salad Bowl or Ruby Sails) and radishes (always Cherry Belles) and if we can find them this early, onion sets. Then he puts a frame around the bed and covers it with chicken wire and clear plastic sheeting--the chicken wire holds the plastic sheeting off the seedlings. In about a month, we might have a few radishes and the lettuce will be ready in 6-8 weeks.
I love this early planting. I feel like we've got a jump on the season, and we can mix the early wild greens in with the early salad. Even if it snows again, the little green seedlings are a sign that Spring is certainly on the way.
Lettuce pray
that Spring is on the way!
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