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LETTUCE & SALAD GREENS sa RUMEX sa SPINACH x GREENS (SALAD) x SALAD GREENS xx VEGETABLE Tips for vegetable gardeners. (1) Making a bird spooker. (2) Building a planter box for the lettuce. (3) Screening seedlings with perforated plastic plant flats. (4) Protecting a row of seedlings with nylon mesh supported by 1x1s. (5) Making a zucchini cage. (6) Growing pole beans on a patio up a wire support to form a screen, and (7) Making a cabbage mat. Grow a salad garden from seed. The emphasis is on growing various types of lettuce. How to grow lettuce from seeds. A look at the general culture of lettuce and some of the varieties that are favorites. Types of lettuce and how to grow them. How to grow spring, summer and fall crops of lettuce. How to grow bigger and better lettuce. How to grow lettuce. Basics of lettuce culture in spring, summer, and fall. Stalking greens, potherbs, and shoots. Tips on harvesting and eating wild plants. How to plant fall lettuce. Growing herbs and vegetables indoors. Covers raising lettuce and tomatoes, radishes and onions, celery, cress, and herbs. Extend the lettuce-growing season by covering the plants with a PVC frame and shade cloth. Winter salads. Pick your own salad greens all winter long. Use a well-planned planting schedule, a selection of protective covers, and carefully chosen varieties to raise lettuce, endive, escarole, chicory, and other greens throughout the winter (provided the soil does not freeze). Lettuce in the heat. How to grow cool-season greens in warm weather. Tip describes growing lettuce in a child's wagon. Tips on growing cool-season greens indoor in pots. Tips on raising lettuce in Arizona to avoid a bitter taste. A look at raising lettuce. An outdoor hotbed uses an underground heat cable to raise lettuce throughout the winter. Suggestions on preparing a lettuce bed with several varieties of greens. Tips on growing many varieties of lettuce, tucking them in among other plants where they are cooler and more resistant to bolting. Tip: Get better stands of lettuce by germinating seeds before planting. Raising giant red Japanese mustard greens which are ideal for salads. Beyond salad. Tips on raising lettuce. Spring greens. Growing a variety of spring salad greens from seed. A guide to the four main types of lettuce (butterhead, crisphead, looseleaf and romaine) and how to grow them. Mesclun, a mixture of lettuce, salad greens and herbal garnish. Advice on using pre-packaged seed mixtures to grow blends of greens and herbs that taste good and grow well together. Selecting super salads. Recommendated lettuce varieties and alternative greens for the home garden. Advice on multiple sowings and pickings. A spring salad garden (12x12-ft.) contains spinach, three varieties of lettuce, mustard and arugula. Planting and cultivating lettuce. Five rules to follow when growing lettuce. Planting lettuce for a winter harvest. Shear delight. Snipping a salad of garden-mixed greens. Cultivating tightly-packed mesclun beds of mixed salad greens. A patchwork of lettuce. Sowing an all-season sampler of salad greens (leaf, Romaine, butterhead, crisphead, and intermediate). Tips on transplanting and stretching the season. Home-grown greens. Guidelines for growing herbal greens and using them in foods. How to grow America's favorite vegetables. General guidelines and specific instructions for beans, beets, corn, lettuce, peas, peppers, radishes, squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes. Raising iceberg lettuce. Mesclun, seasonal salads with a Mediterranean twist. A guide to some of the greens that make up mesclun. How to plant mesclun beds, deal with pests and harvest the greens. Starting lettuce indoors. Step-by-step instructions to starting lettuce seeds, hardening off, and transplanting. Growing mesclun (tender young salad greens) in a cold frame. Salads in the snow. How to grow fresh greens in the winter by using polyester row cover, cold frames and a movable hoop house. A taste for weeds. How to gather a wild salad in your own backyard. Grow mesclun for a mix of tender greens. How to plant from spring to fall to harvest a complete salad from a single bed. Tip on harvesting lettuce, greens or other delicate vegetables in a way that keeps them from wilting. General information about orach (mountain spinach). Broccoli raab, an Italian green that is versatile in the kitchen and easy to grow. Windowsill greens. How to grow a variety of greens indoors. Old rusty wheelbarrow is used as a portable bed for lettuce. Head lettuce varieties suitable to grow in the home garden. A look at romaines, batavians, butterheads and their culture. The many faces of Asian greens. Seven varieties and their culture described. Tips on foraging for edible weeds. Arugula. How to start a patch and when to harvest it. Cut-and-come-again lettuce sampler. A guide to 11 varieties of cutting lettuces. Tips on better ways to sow small seeds and how to enrich the soil of a lettuce bed. Inexpensive, easy-to-build grow-frame allows a New Zealander to grow lettuce all year. Covered with 4" wide plastic strips. Lettuce. What to grow, how to grow, what to watch for, and how to harvest and use. A report from a Kansas gardener on how to make a 36x24-ft. corn patch produce a multitude of vegetables. Through interplanting from March through August the patch was used to grow radishes, lettuce, peas, spinich, beets, turnips, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, onions and squash in addition to corn. How to grow-top-quality lettuce in mid-summer. How to raise and care for head lettuce. A look at head lettuces that can be grown from seed in hot climates. A look at planting vegetables that yield after repeated cuttings. (Swiss Chard, New Zealand Spinach, Kale, Head Cabbage, Escarole, Lettuce and Onions) How to raise and harvest celtuce. The best salad lettuces. How to get bigger and better lettuce yields. Tip: Get early spring lettuce by planting in fall and fertilizing (with formula given) in early spring. The solar salad bed. How to build and use a solar cold frame to raise lettuce during the winter. Winter windowsill gardening. Grow lettuce, tomatoes, peppers and herbs without a greenhouse. Just enough lettuce. Planting 10 seeds a week will yield plenty of lettuce for all summer. How to grow lettuce all summer. Tip: A simple wooden frame covered with black plastic is used to shade lettuce plants all summer long. Tip on raising fresh lettuce all winter. Tips on growing Romaine lettuce. Some problems common to crisp-head lettuce and what to do about them. A look at dwarf varieties of lettuce, romaine and chicory for the home garden. Year-round lettuce. A guide to lettuce varities that can be grown in spring, summer, fall and winter. Includes information on growing lettuce under row cover. How to sow salad crops in the early fall and overwinter young plants under row covers for early spring lettuce. A guide to varieties of head lettuce that will endure warmer temperatures. Includes tips on gardening practices that avert premature bolting. Instructions for starting lettuce, either indoors in a seed-starting flat or outdoors in a cold frame. A look at 16 new varieties of lettuce. Includes growing tips and suggestions for stretching the growing season. Avant-garde greens. Be the first to grow these exotic greens (Italian chicory, kale, mustard, cabbage). How to plant a mix of salad greens in the fall for fall, winter and harvest. Includes tips on selecting row covers and on varieties of lettuce that overwinter well. Harvest super salads from small spaces. A Rodale Institute Research Center plan for a salad garden (5x10-ft.) that can yield 107 pounds of salad crops. Includes a year-round intensive salad gardening calendar. Lettuce to grow all spring. Crisphead, romaine, butterhead, leaf and loosehead varieties described. Eat your weeds. A guide to edible weeds. How to grow salad greens that do well in warm weather. Lettuce forever. Plans for four seasons of lettuce, from late winter-early spring through fall-early winter. Includes starting schedule for zones 4-5 through 10 and recommended varieties for each season. Spicy salad greens to grow (mustard red giant, arugula, mizuna, mustard spinach, Dutch broad-leaf cress, curly cress, mibuna and nastrutium). Weeds you eat. A guide to chickweed, dandelion, yellow dock, Mexican bamboo, stinging nettle, wild garlic, garlic mustard, wild mustards and violets. Grow your own cut and come again lettuce. How to get high yields from small spaces. Heads up for lettuce. Three types of head lettuce (romaine, crisphead and butterhead) and their culture. Fast Asian greens for fall. How to grow tatsoi, pak choi, mizuna, red mustard and edible leaf amaranth. Grow sensational salads. Expert tips to raise and harvest four or five different types of lettuce. How to grow lettuce from seed. Tricks for raising baby lettuce in 27 to 48 days. Hanging salads. Growing lettuce in a wire basket lined with moss. A salad basket in two weeks. Raising a collection of salad greens and herbs in a wicker basket. Raising salad greens in pots or in the ground. Salads from the summer garden. A guide to greens that grow well in hot weather. Lettuce in a wheelbarrow. A mobile propagation technique. How to grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, broccoli, beans, salad greens and herbs indoors. | |||||||||
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