Thank you for this info! I'd ask for some tips on growing lettuce in another vid comment but didn't see this one until now. Wrote down the ones you said to grow in heat of summer since I am in the deep south. Once it hits the middle of June I think growing lettuce here will be history until fall time. lol
Your lettuce is looking real good. The salad spinner looks like it will help out at the packing station. I hope your customers are really happy with what your growing.
I just counted my tomatoes yesterday 17. 4 rows of beans 10 ft long. I grow lettuce in dish pans sitting on tables in the breezeway. Had my first saled tonight.
Thanks all my lettuce bolted, I pinched off the flower heads and trying to eat the leaves. Planted seeds next to the current lettuce and will work out how to shade the next lot.
OMG, Lacey! That looks delicious! I cook/roast radishes...they taste similar to potatoes. Thank you, Mike, for sharing your knowledge! I will keep this in mind for seed selection next year.
Great tips there on keeping salad greens producing. They have definitely been some of our favorite things to grow and eat. We are also doing a ton of winter squash so that we can continue to eat our harvest into the winter. Oh, and Kenzie is gonna love that discount with Dr. Flower!
My youngest started raised beds last year at his house and mine. This year he and I started our plants from seed from MIgardener and he built a greenhouse. It is great sharing our gardening experiences and comparing our progress. We also shared tomato plants with his big brother.
This year I sowed a lot of my greens at the base of larger plants, such as fava beans, peas, and even underneath my tomatoes. So far they're growing beautifully and get a nice shade cover! I usually do a variety of lettuces, kale, spinach, chard, and arugula. I added mizuna this year and I'm so excited about it. Our main garden is in our front yard which gets tons of sun, so I'm also thinking about doing some salad beds in the backyard which get a great mix of sun and shade. I'm in the Pacific Northwest where we get loooooong days this time of year, but I really think it's the heat that causes the bolting.
Another fun & informative video! Have you heard of minutina (Stella Herba)? It's a delicious salad green that does not get bitter in the heat. MiGardener has a couple videos on it & sells the seeds. It's great to add to the salad mix. Also, planting lettuce in the shade of other plants is one way I keep a cooler micro climate for my lettuce. I started gardening 4 years ago & I'm learning to grow as much of our own food as possible here in the beautiful Pacific northwest ❤ You guys are awesome & I love watching your videos! Good luck with your garden 😊
Potatoes 2 kinds, lettuce, beets,cucumbers, corn green beans,okra, yellow squash ,watermelon 2 kinds, cantaloupe, cabbages,Brussels sprouts, all kinds of flowers, 3 kinds peppers, garlic, onions, and tomatoes and I have enjoyed every minute of it after having a complete hip replacement in january.
Wow Judy! You have a wonderful garden growing! It is awesome that you are doing all the gardening after having a hip replacement in January. You are a tough lady!
Was that a brief glimpse of Lacey's Apothecary Garden? Lookin' good! And beautiful lettuces and vegies! Whew. I'm hungry! I am looking forward to arugula and cherry tomatoes from my flower beds (only area I have to plant in), and my perennials in the flower beds are blooming...raspberries and blackberries.
Ina Garder salad of roasted beats with arugula and goat cheese olive oil and balsamic viniger and it is sick and crack, we love it. If you want I will send you the recipe. Another way we use them is roasted with their greens and dress with olive oil and something. Then roast and make a pesto, really good too.
Great information on growing the lettuce. I don't always do well with those. The dishes that were shown look delicious. Will there be a cookbook for some of the meals soon? Thanks for sharing.
I have always been in a community garden since Ive been in graduate school Mike. Done urban guerilla gardening in downtown Philadelphia, CSAs in PA, VT, NY and OR. In a community garden now here in Oregon. I love growing lettuce, though I never grew it growing up down south. I hope to move back home to Mt Pleasant South Carolina in coming years and so Im really loving your channel. Might put a yurt on the property too
I live in Jacksonville Florida and have two massive tortoises that are my babies. Because they’re so large they require a large amount of greens. I’ve been buying they’re lettuce from the grocery store but I thought why not just grow it myself. So far this year I’ve had very good success with romaine and collard greens. I just planted a heap load of Oakleaf lettuce and they seem to be doing very good. My main concern is the Florida summer heat. I’m not too sure on what I’m supposed to do. Your video has helped give me some good ideas. I’m having a lot of fun growing my tortoises food. Any suggestions you may have would be greatly appreciated.
I love butter head lettuce. It is so fluffy crisp! If that is something you can call lettuce... fluffy crisp! LOL! I love the way that you can do so many things with the butter head type lettuce. I also love loose leaf a lot too. I even have some growing on my patio!!! Romaine is fun to make tacos with. Those Lacie dishes look tasty too!
I have a shade tree on one end of my garden and thats where I plant my lettuce and kale. It is shaded during the middle of the day. It is doing good even in the Missouri heat.
Great video! Where in the south are you? I’m also in the south - Alabama. It gets so hot here, hot and humid! I was thinking about planting some New Zealand Spinach (not a “true” spinach), which I read is very heat tolerant. However, I watched a TH-cam video about it and the guy in the vid said eating it raw in large quantities can lead to kidney failure, but eating cooked is fine. I wanted a salad green!! LOL I might just wait and plant some lettuce in late summer. I did consider planting them in a shady area and also on the north side of some straw bales. Maybe I’ll figure something out! Best - Adam
We are in the Piedmont of North Carolina, not far from Charlotte. It is hot and humid here too. Isn't that Malabar Spinach? I haven't ever heard about the kidney issue thing.
The Fit Farmer - Mike Dickson Hi Mike! I think Malabar and New Zealand spinach are two different plants, but neither are considered a “true” spinach, but used in much the same way. Also one (maybe Malabar?) sometimes needs trellises...? I haven’t grown either, just read about them. Here is a link to that TH-cam video I mentioned. His comment regarding kidney problems is at about the 3:30 mark. th-cam.com/video/U46jZEDy7Cc/w-d-xo.html Thanks for the response! Really enjoy your videos!!
I was too impatient and sowed all my BC lettuce and radish seeds here in southern CA in March and nothing germinated🙄 My tomatoes, green beans and cucumbers are doing great though. Determined to try again with lettuce...thanks for the inspiration!
AWESOME VIDEO!!! We’re in TN near Memphis and it gets HOT 🔥 Thanks for sharing the info on different varieties!!!! I hadn’t thought of that!!!! I’m rethinking what I can grow and when!!!!
I'm glad you were talking about lettuce today, because I am growing some in my raised bed for the first time and planted it about a month and a half ago and it's growing, but super slow. The biggest one is only about 3 inches tall. I do have them in partial sun. Is there anything else I can do. I'm in South Carolina, so maybe just the heat? Thanks again! 🌼
You give great advice and tips. Sure has helped me a lot with our garden. We have to deal with extreme heat here in Calif. Have you grown lemon cucumbers or purple broccoli?
It can’t be the day length. I grow lettuce yr round inside my house Hydrophobic. My plants are cool and i control light time But the red romaine lettuce always does this! It does it after i have been cutting and leaving the plant to keep growing. It’ll give me great lettuce for a few nice size cuttings. And after my 4th-5th cutting it will shoot up and wow so quickly it shoots off and flowers I’m hoping i can harvest the seeds and I’m happy to use those seeds But id really like to keep getting lettuce leave cuttings longer.
Try cucumber,carrots,kale, green apples and red pear for a juice and also u can add beets for a great beet juice. I use 10 cucumbers,10 carrots, 10 green apples,10 red pears that usually makes about a gallon or more depending on the size of ur cucumbers!!! If u add beets use 2 large ones. As far as the kale a bunch is fine.
@@MikeTheFitFarmer Awww Thanks it is !!!I didn't know if u guys had an orchard??? I'm trying to catch up with all the episodes.... And I know you all just eat off ur land u would hv to buy the red pears and granny Smith apples...🙁 but hv u guys thought of dwarf fruit trees????
Hello from Arkansas! I been watching y'all! And I was inspired to try my hand at m icrogreens! I used Todd's seeds. Thanks for the videos guys! Keep it up and thanks for the inspiration Se! 💚🌿
Hello Just wanted to share a delicious Mexican quesadilla. Its made with the beautiful flowers from squash, pumpkin zucchini. So pick the flowers os the veggie when they are nice and still a bit crisp. If they are grown organic all you have to check for are bugs inside the flower. Then the ingredients you need are any type of melty cheese of your choice we perfer jack. So then once it's stuffed with the cheese ya want to cover the flowers in a biit of flower to dry it out to get a nice coat of eggwash seasoned with just a bit of salt or garlic salt. Pan fry in just a lil bit of oil to coat the pan. All you want is for the egg to cooked and the cheese to be melted. So just warm up a tortilla add your delicious flower like a taco add favorite salsa and serve. Trust me you will be addicted to these delicious squash flower quesadillas.
Bitter and tough-sounds like a pot of greens! Saute with garlic,spices and salt in some fat, finish on the plate with a little vinegar, that's how my moms does greens. I should have some bolted lettuce this year, I'll try it out and let you now how it goes.
Do you think during summer would be better to plant lettuce in a planter or box, take it outside in the early morning hours, and then bring it inside for the rest of the day? Since the problem seems to be more hours of daylight, maybe changing the location after a few hours to a darker room could help? IF the problem happens to be the heat though, could I place the container where the lettuce grows on top of something cool, like frozen water bottles or something like that? What do you think? Sounds too dumb? I'm planning to start a small backyard vegetable garden and I'm gathering as much information as possible before I start, and something I keep reading everywhere is that lettuce and spinach mostly need cooler temperatures and low daylight hours, but me and my family eat lettuce and spinach during spring/summer not fall/winter! So I'm trying to figure out how could I grow them during summer so I know what to buy, if I should build a raised bed or just buy large containers and all that.
We usually only keep it on for the first week or so, after that we take it off. We will just get less cuttings off of each bed in the summer but it grows so much faster in the summer that we will continue to plant more beds of lettuce. I hope that makes sense.
@@MikeTheFitFarmer it does! because of you, i decided to try growing lettuce year round this year & because of you, i found ray tyler & took his class. because of you, we buy our tarps INSANELY cheap in charlotte (we're 45min north of raleigh) which has allowed us to expand our garden tremendously. and bc of you, we're trying market gardening for the first time! :D
My tomato plants are growing really tall but no tomatoes yet. Do you think it might be the mulch store we used that it might not be good enough or what
Swiss chard roots -- who knew?! How about roasting? It's the only way I can get my Dear Husband to eat carrots and brussels sprouts. ~ Kir in Tennessee
I didn't even notice the name change and I knew it was you. LOL We haven't had an issue with rabbit because our dogs keep them away. I will have to see if I can find some suggestions on that for you.
@@MikeTheFitFarmer Thanks and i also have a problem with caterpillars.. Its would be a good help if u can. i go out everyday to see holes all in my Ga. Collards
Kiddo go to the barbershop and ask for all of the floor sweepings. Spread it around the garden and among the plants that you were having problems with being eaten. Rabbits do not care for the scent. Also if you have any one gallon glass jugs,
Go to the barber shop or the beauty salon and ask for all of the floor sweepings of hair. Place the hair in the garden where the rabbits have been chewing your plants. The rabbits you don't care for the scent. Also if you have access 2 one gallon glass jugs,
Working on growing something finally...the cold northern weather is moving on...and finally starting to get warm enough to grow some Beets / onions / garlic / Corn/ squash/ beans/ cucumbers / lettuces / carrots / potatoes / sweet potatoes slips / and some herbs. Thanks for the tip about the Shade cloth...didn't know that. 9:35 some suggested replacements for *Cropped out* = _I _*_Retired_*_ this plant_ _I _*_extracted_*_ this plant_ _excavated_ 9:50 Are Swiss chard roots edible = roomforaradish.blogspot.com/2016/01/are-chard-roots-edible-and-are-they.html I eat my chard roots in chicken stir fry ...good stuff
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Thank you for this info! I'd ask for some tips on growing lettuce in another vid comment but didn't see this one until now. Wrote down the ones you said to grow in heat of summer since I am in the deep south. Once it hits the middle of June I think growing lettuce here will be history until fall time. lol
Thanks
Lettuce, peas, broccoli, kale, brussel sprouts, onions and potatoes are in the ground. A bunch of starts under our lights too.
Hello,I'm a fan from Puerto princesa,palawan, philippines.i'm a fan and also love farming.
I'm growing spring mix lettuce and moringa tree along with pink tomatoes from Baker Creek
That great Chuck!
Thanks Mike!
Dill helps offset bitterness too and tastes amazing...
Great idea!
Your lettuce is looking real good. The salad spinner looks like it will help out at the packing station. I hope your customers are really happy with what your growing.
I just counted my tomatoes yesterday 17. 4 rows of beans 10 ft long. I grow lettuce in dish pans sitting on tables in the breezeway. Had my first saled tonight.
Thanks all my lettuce bolted, I pinched off the flower heads and trying to eat the leaves. Planted seeds next to the current lettuce and will work out how to shade the next lot.
OMG, Lacey! That looks delicious! I cook/roast radishes...they taste similar to potatoes. Thank you, Mike, for sharing your knowledge! I will keep this in mind for seed selection next year.
Thank you Denise! I love cooking with fresh veggies from the garden!~ Lacie
God bless you and your family bro.
so far had no luck with my lettuce.thank s for the knowledge
A lot of good information. Thanks Mike.
We like to make bolted lettuce soup, esp with buttermilk, 1 big baker potato, herbs etc, fat free cream or real cream. So good.
I really enjoyed this video! 😍
Great tips there on keeping salad greens producing. They have definitely been some of our favorite things to grow and eat. We are also doing a ton of winter squash so that we can continue to eat our harvest into the winter.
Oh, and Kenzie is gonna love that discount with Dr. Flower!
We love winter squash too! Yay! I'm glad that we could help with the discount.
Well be moving my spinach container into the shade and see what happens thanks for the tips
You're welcome!
That was some crunch from that hairy scary chard! Lol
My youngest started raised beds last year at his house and mine. This year he and I started our plants from seed from MIgardener and he built a greenhouse. It is great sharing our gardening experiences and comparing our progress. We also shared tomato plants with his big brother.
That is awesome Jeanie!
I let some radishes go to seed. Right now the seed pod is crispy. They taste great!
This year I sowed a lot of my greens at the base of larger plants, such as fava beans, peas, and even underneath my tomatoes. So far they're growing beautifully and get a nice shade cover! I usually do a variety of lettuces, kale, spinach, chard, and arugula. I added mizuna this year and I'm so excited about it. Our main garden is in our front yard which gets tons of sun, so I'm also thinking about doing some salad beds in the backyard which get a great mix of sun and shade. I'm in the Pacific Northwest where we get loooooong days this time of year, but I really think it's the heat that causes the bolting.
Have subscribed because of Justin and the Hollars. Bless you for helping them!
Welcome Di! We had a great time helping our the Hollars and getting to see the Rhodes family again.
Another fun & informative video! Have you heard of minutina (Stella Herba)? It's a delicious salad green that does not get bitter in the heat. MiGardener has a couple videos on it & sells the seeds. It's great to add to the salad mix. Also, planting lettuce in the shade of other plants is one way I keep a cooler micro climate for my lettuce. I started gardening 4 years ago & I'm learning to grow as much of our own food as possible here in the beautiful Pacific northwest ❤ You guys are awesome & I love watching your videos! Good luck with your garden 😊
Thank you Cami! We are so glad that you enjoy our videos! We will have to check out the salad green that you mentioned.
Potatoes 2 kinds, lettuce, beets,cucumbers, corn green beans,okra, yellow squash ,watermelon 2 kinds, cantaloupe, cabbages,Brussels sprouts, all kinds of flowers, 3 kinds peppers, garlic, onions, and tomatoes and I have enjoyed every minute of it after having a complete hip replacement in january.
Wow Judy! You have a wonderful garden growing! It is awesome that you are doing all the gardening after having a hip replacement in January. You are a tough lady!
Was that a brief glimpse of Lacey's Apothecary Garden? Lookin' good! And beautiful lettuces and vegies! Whew. I'm hungry! I am looking forward to arugula and cherry tomatoes from my flower beds (only area I have to plant in), and my perennials in the flower beds are blooming...raspberries and blackberries.
Ina Garder salad of roasted beats with arugula and goat cheese olive oil and balsamic viniger and it is sick and crack, we love it. If you want I will send you the recipe. Another way we use them is roasted with their greens and dress with olive oil and something. Then roast and make a pesto, really good too.
Going to build my first greenhouse on our land
Great information! I am going to try growing salad greens in the shade
Great information on growing the lettuce. I don't always do well with those. The dishes that were shown look delicious. Will there be a cookbook for some of the meals soon? Thanks for sharing.
I have always been in a community garden since Ive been in graduate school Mike. Done urban guerilla gardening in downtown Philadelphia, CSAs in PA, VT, NY and OR.
In a community garden now here in Oregon. I love growing lettuce, though I never grew it growing up down south.
I hope to move back home to Mt Pleasant South Carolina in coming years and so Im really loving your channel. Might put a yurt on the property too
I live in Jacksonville Florida and have two massive tortoises that are my babies. Because they’re so large they require a large amount of greens. I’ve been buying they’re lettuce from the grocery store but I thought why not just grow it myself. So far this year I’ve had very good success with romaine and collard greens. I just planted a heap load of Oakleaf lettuce and they seem to be doing very good. My main concern is the Florida summer heat. I’m not too sure on what I’m supposed to do. Your video has helped give me some good ideas. I’m having a lot of fun growing my tortoises food. Any suggestions you may have would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for this great information!!
I love butter head lettuce. It is so fluffy crisp! If that is something you can call lettuce... fluffy crisp! LOL! I love the way that you can do so many things with the butter head type lettuce. I also love loose leaf a lot too. I even have some growing on my patio!!! Romaine is fun to make tacos with. Those Lacie dishes look tasty too!
I have a shade tree on one end of my garden and thats where I plant my lettuce and kale. It is shaded during the middle of the day. It is doing good even in the Missouri heat.
Great video! Where in the south are you? I’m also in the south - Alabama. It gets so hot here, hot and humid! I was thinking about planting some New Zealand Spinach (not a “true” spinach), which I read is very heat tolerant. However, I watched a TH-cam video about it and the guy in the vid said eating it raw in large quantities can lead to kidney failure, but eating cooked is fine. I wanted a salad green!! LOL I might just wait and plant some lettuce in late summer. I did consider planting them in a shady area and also on the north side of some straw bales. Maybe I’ll figure something out! Best - Adam
We are in the Piedmont of North Carolina, not far from Charlotte. It is hot and humid here too. Isn't that Malabar Spinach? I haven't ever heard about the kidney issue thing.
The Fit Farmer - Mike Dickson
Hi Mike! I think Malabar and New Zealand spinach are two different plants, but neither are considered a “true” spinach, but used in much the same way. Also one (maybe Malabar?) sometimes needs trellises...? I haven’t grown either, just read about them.
Here is a link to that TH-cam video I mentioned. His comment regarding kidney problems is at about the 3:30 mark.
th-cam.com/video/U46jZEDy7Cc/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the response! Really enjoy your videos!!
Catching up on your videos as I have been out of town. Thanks for sharing the varieties. That help a lot.
I was too impatient and sowed all my BC lettuce and radish seeds here in southern CA in March and nothing germinated🙄 My tomatoes, green beans and cucumbers are doing great though. Determined to try again with lettuce...thanks for the inspiration!
I would try dicing the swiss chard and putting in mixed veggies or even beef stew.
You've convinced me! We are starting micro greens because of you guys and I can't wait. It's been so hot here in DeLand FL
Nice advise Mike!
Thank you!
Promote Swiss Chard root to chefs. They love cooking with the newest thing.
Excellent suggestion. Thanks
hello i use shade from tomatoes to shade my lettuce and so far yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Awesome David!
The table top with veggie dishes looks wonderful....made my mouth water. Great video. Thanks folks. GROW ON!!! May HE bless you mightily.
AWESOME VIDEO!!! We’re in TN near Memphis and it gets HOT 🔥 Thanks for sharing the info on different varieties!!!! I hadn’t thought of that!!!! I’m rethinking what I can grow and when!!!!
I grow in pots and lambs lettuce is a real favourite of mine and I’ve never had problems with it tfs xx
Thanks for the info! Bolting has been the bane of my lettuce this summer here in OK :/ next season should be better now that I know the problem ;)
Got it, Keep me posted, Thanks for the follow up.
Great advice! Thank you Mike!
Thank you Jan!
I LOVED IT
I am in the process of making a fenced in garden area. But I don't look as fit as you. LOL.
Thanks Mike great vid. Buy the way I think I know what's wrong with my wife she bolted.😜
Rabbit Boy let us not joke about that
You can use bolted lettuce or wild lettuce medically... You juice it and dry the juice to a gummy sap. Its a pain killer.
I knew about wild lettuce but I never thought about using our lettuce like that. Thanks for the tip!
I'm container gardening because I will be moving. Its been so cool and rainy in Illinois everything is behind.
Weather has been crazy this year. Thanks for watching!
I'm glad you were talking about lettuce today, because I am growing some in my raised bed for the first time and planted it about a month and a half ago and it's growing, but super slow. The biggest one is only about 3 inches tall. I do have them in partial sun. Is there anything else I can do. I'm in South Carolina, so maybe just the heat? Thanks again! 🌼
It is probably growing slower because it is in the shade so it will also be slower to bolt.
You give great advice and tips. Sure has helped me a lot with our garden. We have to deal with extreme heat here in Calif. Have you grown lemon cucumbers or purple broccoli?
Thanks for the info.
I hope my plants look like yours but I am doubtful anyway congratulations on your beautiful farm family.
It can’t be the day length. I grow lettuce yr round inside my house
Hydrophobic. My plants are cool and i control light time
But the red romaine lettuce always does this! It does it after i have been cutting and leaving the plant to keep growing. It’ll give me great lettuce for a few nice size cuttings. And after my 4th-5th cutting it will shoot up and wow so quickly it shoots off and flowers
I’m hoping i can harvest the seeds and I’m happy to use those seeds
But id really like to keep getting lettuce leave cuttings longer.
Thanks for the great info
Try cucumber,carrots,kale, green apples and red pear for a juice and also u can add beets for a great beet juice. I use 10 cucumbers,10 carrots, 10 green apples,10 red pears that usually makes about a gallon or more depending on the size of ur cucumbers!!! If u add beets use 2 large ones. As far as the kale a bunch is fine.
Sounds great Millie!
@@MikeTheFitFarmer Awww Thanks it is !!!I didn't know if u guys had an orchard??? I'm trying to catch up with all the episodes.... And I know you all just eat off ur land u would hv to buy the red pears and granny Smith apples...🙁 but hv u guys thought of dwarf fruit trees????
We have a lot of persimmon trees right now but would love to start an orchard.
@@MikeTheFitFarmer 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 awesome I've heard the dwarf trees are easier to maintain Good luck love the show by the way!!!!!
I am growing lettuce and tomatoes on my porch and mint .
Thank you
Hello from Arkansas! I been watching y'all! And I was inspired to try my hand at m icrogreens! I used Todd's seeds. Thanks for the videos guys! Keep it up and thanks for the inspiration Se! 💚🌿
For salad that is bitter add maple syrup in the dressing.
Great information thank you!
You're welcome Tina! Thanks so much for being part of our channel!
Hello
Just wanted to share a delicious Mexican quesadilla. Its made with the beautiful flowers from squash, pumpkin zucchini. So pick the flowers os the veggie when they are nice and still a bit crisp. If they are grown organic all you have to check for are bugs inside the flower. Then the ingredients you need are any type of melty cheese of your choice we perfer jack. So then once it's stuffed with the cheese ya want to cover the flowers in a biit of flower to dry it out to get a nice coat of eggwash seasoned with just a bit of salt or garlic salt. Pan fry in just a lil bit of oil to coat the pan. All you want is for the egg to cooked and the cheese to be melted. So just warm up a tortilla add your delicious flower like a taco add favorite salsa and serve. Trust me you will be addicted to these delicious squash flower quesadillas.
I had to share the recipe after watching this video withat beautiful squash flower with the bee flying out of it. Yummy.
Bitter and tough-sounds like a pot of greens!
Saute with garlic,spices and salt in some fat, finish on the plate with a little vinegar, that's how my moms does greens.
I should have some bolted lettuce this year, I'll try it out and let you now how it goes.
Try it and let us know!
GROW ON!!!
We are growing watermelon and cantaloupe and herbs
And tomatoes
Awesome Kat!
Do you think during summer would be better to plant lettuce in a planter or box, take it outside in the early morning hours, and then bring it inside for the rest of the day? Since the problem seems to be more hours of daylight, maybe changing the location after a few hours to a darker room could help? IF the problem happens to be the heat though, could I place the container where the lettuce grows on top of something cool, like frozen water bottles or something like that? What do you think? Sounds too dumb? I'm planning to start a small backyard vegetable garden and I'm gathering as much information as possible before I start, and something I keep reading everywhere is that lettuce and spinach mostly need cooler temperatures and low daylight hours, but me and my family eat lettuce and spinach during spring/summer not fall/winter! So I'm trying to figure out how could I grow them during summer so I know what to buy, if I should build a raised bed or just buy large containers and all that.
What camera do you use for this video?
Lol you crack me up trying the Swiss chars root! What percentage of shade cloth do you use.
50%
More Cucumbers than I can count but my Tomatoes are being really pouty this year.
Shall we cut lettuce stem if bolted..or it is of any use??except seed??
so do you use shade cloth other than the first 7-10 days of transplanting? if so, how? and how do you use it to mimic shorter days? shade on the west?
We usually only keep it on for the first week or so, after that we take it off. We will just get less cuttings off of each bed in the summer but it grows so much faster in the summer that we will continue to plant more beds of lettuce. I hope that makes sense.
@@MikeTheFitFarmer it does! because of you, i decided to try growing lettuce year round this year & because of you, i found ray tyler & took his class. because of you, we buy our tarps INSANELY cheap in charlotte (we're 45min north of raleigh) which has allowed us to expand our garden tremendously. and bc of you, we're trying market gardening for the first time! :D
I'm curious. How do you obtain seeds from lettuce or kale? Great info btw!
If you want to save seeds from your lettuce and kale you just let it go to seed and then catch the seeds before they drop.
Garden raised beds in N Florida
We are a few weeks late, but we doubled the size of the garden and everything is just starting out.
I'm sure it will be booming soon!
My tomato plants are growing really tall but no tomatoes yet. Do you think it might be the mulch store we used that it might not be good enough or what
You could always add some fertilizer and see what they do. We have tomatoes but they are all green right now.
Any suggestions on growing celery in the summer and keeping it from bolting?
Lol! Stop cropping out Mike! We're still building the garden, but we were finally able to get something planted. Armenian cucumber!!😀
😂 I will work on that! Lacie is growing Armenian cucumbers too.
Where do you buy your shade cloth?? I can’t find any suppliers.
Bootstrapfarmer.com has shade cloth, that is where we got ours from.
We're you able to grow lettuce through the summer last year? I bet those chickens have been producing some vibrant eggs. Any green eggs yet?
Maybe that’s why your eggs are so delicious!
Swiss chard roots -- who knew?! How about roasting? It's the only way I can get my Dear Husband to eat carrots and brussels sprouts. ~ Kir in Tennessee
Oh yeah you could roast them too. ~ Lacie
Raised bed in a community garden
I'm growing lettuce
Where is the best place to get the heat tolerant seeds?
The only place you can get the salanova is Johnny's Seed and they carry Muir Lettuce too.
GREETINGS FRIENDS!!!! Tried growing lettuce this year and the rabbits ate it! any ideas on how to prevent it???
by the wat thia is candi i changed my name.. LOL
I didn't even notice the name change and I knew it was you. LOL We haven't had an issue with rabbit because our dogs keep them away. I will have to see if I can find some suggestions on that for you.
@@MikeTheFitFarmer Thanks and i also have a problem with caterpillars.. Its would be a good help if u can. i go out everyday to see holes all in my Ga. Collards
Kiddo go to the barbershop and ask for all of the floor sweepings. Spread it around the garden and among the plants that you were having problems with being eaten. Rabbits do not care for the scent. Also if you have any one gallon glass jugs,
Go to the barber shop or the beauty salon and ask for all of the floor sweepings of hair. Place the hair in the garden where the rabbits have been chewing your plants. The rabbits you don't care for the scent. Also if you have access 2 one gallon glass jugs,
Farm Fit Sweatshirt, where to buy one, Please?
Todd we are working on having them available soon!
Working on growing something finally...the cold northern weather is moving on...and finally starting to get warm enough to grow some
Beets / onions / garlic / Corn/ squash/ beans/ cucumbers / lettuces / carrots / potatoes / sweet potatoes slips / and some herbs.
Thanks for the tip about the Shade cloth...didn't know that.
9:35 some suggested replacements for *Cropped out* =
_I _*_Retired_*_ this plant_
_I _*_extracted_*_ this plant_
_excavated_
9:50 Are Swiss chard roots edible = roomforaradish.blogspot.com/2016/01/are-chard-roots-edible-and-are-they.html
I eat my chard roots in chicken stir fry ...good stuff
WHAT IF YOU CLIPPED THE TOP??? I GOT MINI TOMATO, SQUASH 2 KINDS, 2 POTS OF LETTUCE..
#2 NO VIEWS!!!
You can clip the top when they start to bolt but they are usually already bitter by then.
Mike the juice and cereal.........no.