Everybody: Plant some lettuce!

[NJCher]

I've been reading up on cyclosporiasis and what I'm finding is that people who have had it often blame packaged salad mixes.

Lettuce is a quick crop--some types are only 35 days to maturity. Buy some seed packets and plant it wherever you can.

Hot weather is tough for lettuce, so you might try kale and microgreens until the weather cools off.

[ShepKat]

1. and learn about edible weeds

So many weeds are edible so don't pull them, eat them freely (in more ways than 1)
Purslane is a BIG one- one of the most nutritious weed to eat. Even has omega 3
Amaranth leaves is another... and clover.
Weeds are absolutely wonderful in a salad.

[Figarosmom]

3. I always use dandelion leaves when i don't have

lettice. And I love the lemony taste of wood sorrel. https://share.google/dCCXabZGBjeAigIuB

You can make popcorn like snacks from the Amaranth seed heads.

[democrank]

5. Wood sorrel is delicious and plentiful in my area.

Thanks for the tips.

[rampartd]

9. amaranth grows in my yard like a weed

i'll throw leaves in a salad or a soup, but what about the seed heads?

the little seeds themselves are used as grain , but i don't know how that either.

the dandelions are good as well .

plant lettuce and other spring greens thick and thin them as they grow. i use a big plastic tub and end up with about 4 big bibb heads.

lettuce is better in winter here, mine is already gone to seed and replaced in the tub with 4 eggplants.

[ShepKat]

10. amaranth seed makes a wonderful grain

no gluten tho if i'm not mistaken- so there's that. I like my gluten.
i'm sure there's videos to instruct.
stinging nettle leaves are quite nutritious when young.

[NJCher]

8. Has a sharp, sweet bite

Clover does.

Purslane is occasionally packaged and sold at the grocery store. I saw a small package the other day for $5,99.

Certain flowers can be put in salads. Nasturtium is one.
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[Figarosmom]

2. My lettice is doing fine in the heat

Not even bolting.

[democrank]

4. Good advice

I have about 1 1/2 raised beds devoted to greens. In the past, at a time when I didn’t have much outdoor space, I planted greens in two window box type planters. Worked well.

A while back I happened to pass a house which sat on a small lot where the owner had three sides of her house surrounded by 5-gallon buckets filled with the healthiest looking veggies I’d ever seen. You don’t need a lot of land in order to grow veggies.

Our library gave away tomato plants in cups….two to a household….this spring. Mine are doing really well.

[Stacey Grove]

6. Everybody?

it's easier to just not eat packaged salad mixes.

Plus, not everyone has a yard. Or grass. Or time. Or the inclination.

It's a nice thought though.

[malaise]

11. You don't need a yard to plant vegetables

That is all

[Old Crank]

7. My mother

Always took her excess grapefruit from her 3 miniature trees to the local senior center. Always gone the next day.