Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Started lettuce and turnips outside, for fast food re: covid-19

Started three kinds of lettuce, and turnips, in the kitchen door bed.

I don't normally grow these -- and have never tried growing turnips --  but had the seeds (from the "Survival Seeds" kit of a few years ago, ironically enough) so figured why not, some fast-growing fresh food to help avoid trips to the grocery store during this pandemic.

The hopes is it will grow to harvestable size by the time I need the bed for the zucchinis.
--> 12 July 2020 update:  Yes, this worked great!

Although, even when it's time to put the zucchinis in, the zukes will be so small that only a small number of the lettuce/turnips would need to be removed, at first.
--> 12 July 2020 update:  Yes!  That's what I did, removed only as needed to transplant the zukes, then gradual removal/harvest of lettuce as zucchinis grew.  Left a few of each variety to go to seed for seed collection.

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