Lettuce

Heads (left), Leaf (right)

We’ve been growing a lot of lettuce.  One of those crops we are trying to be big into this year for both our CSA and at the markets.  It’s a fast crop and doesn’t stay nice for long so we have to plant it every couple weeks.  Here you see a bed of head lettuces beside a bed of leaf lettuce.  At the market people love the washed bags of leaf lettuce, even though I tell them the head lettuce is generally a better deal and you get thicker more crisp leaves.  The convenience of ready to eat seems to generally win out though.  The variety and shapes of lettuce truly create a kaleidoscope.

Green Batavian

Red Batavian

Red and Green Romaine

Fancy Romaine

Little Gem