Lettuce Varieties

Valentine Lettuce

This lettuce blend from Botanical Interests is called Valentine Lettuce and contains various varieties with red leaves.   This blend is great for edging your raised beds as it provides a nice contrast to all of the green vegetable plants. The varieties in this seed packet include the following: Marvel of Four Seasons (butterhead) Lolla […]

Vegetables

Grow Bags for Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes

When harvesting potatoes and sweet potatoes from the ground or from a raised bed, you have to dig them out.  With this method, you risk bruising the skin which isn’t good for storing.   If you grow them in a grow bag, you can just dump the dirt and harvest the potatoes.   While you […]

Vegetable Updates

Update on Mustard, Endive & Radicchio

There are a few vegetables that I grew over the winter.   I was successful with growing mustard, endive & radicchio over the winter under a hoop tunnel.  If I knew how well they would hold up outside over the winter and how mild our winter would be, I would have grown more!   During the […]