How did you get your lettuce seeds to germinate before the weeds??? I'm so jealous of anyone who can direct seed like that! The mustard around here is serious competition for anything that takes longer than 12 hours to germinate 
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If you're referring to mustard greens...you can eat those, too! They're probably even better than lettuce. My grandmother used to walk out into the backyard and pick what we considered weeds...then she'd come in and cook it up with a little bit of bacon. Yum.
[/QUOTE]If you're referring to mustard greens...you can eat those, too! They're probably even better than lettuce. My grandmother used to walk out into the backyard and pick what we considered weeds...then she'd come in and cook it up with a little bit of bacon. Yum.
I got my cheapy cold frame today, and I'm so excited. Because of Cathy, I did some winter-sowing of goodies in various milk/juice/licorice containers. My broccoli seedlings out there and the ones in the pantry are light years away from each other - the winter-sown ones are adorable and stocky and looking fabulous. Well, if I didn't over crowd them. 
And my milk jug lettuce looks way better then the lettuce I just threw in the ground and under a plastic cloche. So I had fun moving things around tonight. Just need to get some better fasteners. Managed to lose one or two of them, and they're cheap crappy ones anyway. I figure I can find something better at the hardware store, with or without hubby's help.
: I don't think it was a skunk but they are wreaking havoc elsewhere in the garden 
: Will plant 18 more tomatoes in the next week.
. It was only supposed to go down to 40F a few nights back, and we woke up to frost 
. They'd been in the ground for two weeks already and growing so nicely. Sigh. Now I have dead tomato plants to replace.
And that's all I've got to say about that.
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