Plant lettuce they said....

It'll be easy, they said.

And, you know what?  They (I) were/was right.

Been ignoring the lettuce cause nothing much seemed to be going on either in the planter or in the front garden.  Took a look this morning and there has been a lettuce explosion!

This batch is from an assortment of seeds from High Mowing Organic Seeds in Vermont - they have a great selection of items suited for our sometimes (ok, always) unpredictable weather in the northeast spring.  The collection contains a lot of the fancy greens you pay and arm and a leg for at the store and it's definitely a lot fresher!

Also, if you look closely you'll see that some of the "greens" are wild, to say the least.  To say the most?  They are weeds.....my point being that lettuce isn't a high maintenance, weed or die sort of crop!  As long as you know which is which they seem to cohabit happily until you get time to clear out the non-lettuce items.

Out front, where the sad pea demise took place the lettuce is doing just as well.

More of the "collection" items - doing just as well tucked in front of the remains of the pea plants.

This lettuce is something called "Nevada" lettuce.  Makes an almost head and isn't bothered by hot weather (lots of lettuce goes to seed if the weather gets too hot).

At any rate, grow lettuce, I said.

It'll be easy, I said.

And I was right.  You may not want to till up the back lawn and plant enough food to feed the family for 6 months but there isn't much reason not to at least try your hand at mini-gardening.  It's a soul satisfying thing to plant a tiny seed and have food show up.  Yeah, something ate my pea plants - stuff happens.

Anything that helps out the food bill, the environment, your health (along with your mental health) can only be a good thing.

Go forth.

Get your hands dirty.

Make food!