Baymule’s 2020 Garden

[baymule]

Another picture! My tomato trellis, design attributed to @Ridgerunner.

 

[henless]

Looks good Bay! Your last pic didn't show

 

[digitS']

I'm with @Ridgerunner 's DW on beet greens. They have been a favorite, maybe since I was a little kid.

Chard is a relative.

Beetroot is not a favorite although, it's okay. I shudder at the idea of drinking the pickling juice. Cloves? No! Can't go that route ...

Steve
Edit: I have Nevada lettuce for this season. You might be successful with that one, Bay'. It's a Batavian and those (butterheads) seem especially sweet to me. Nevada may not be quite there with tenderness but it has stood up well to difficult weather.

 

[seedcorn]

My lettuce is always bitter as well. Maybe lettuce doesn’t like sand. Wants more carbon.

 

[baymule]

My lettuce is always bitter as well. Maybe lettuce doesn’t like sand. Wants more carbon.

So I should give it some charcoal briquets?

 

[Ridgerunner]

So I should give it some charcoal briquets?

If it's bitter what have you got to lose?

 

[seedcorn]

I’m going to try black label zinc-a carbon source. It’s the product in the ground before it is made into coal. Tomatoes and peppers love it. No blossom rot when you use it.

 

[ninnymary]

My lettuce turns bitter when it starts getting too mature or about to bolt.

Have you tried picking it as baby lettuce to see if it's bitter?

Mary

 

[Ridgerunner]

Just out of curiosity, are you talking about leaf lettuce or head lettuce. What types?

 

[seedcorn]

Butter crisp isn’t bad but all leaf lettuces (which I ate as a kid-grown in Illinois idiot soil)) is bitter on sand.