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Re: leaf lettuce

Hello to Don and other interested list members!

        Until this year I had used Don's method with good results.  This
year I did my intense planting in a cold frame; then transplanted small
clumps of lettuce into the raised bed.  The plants are more vigorous than
before.  I'll be munching on large fresh lettuce leaves next week.

Kathy (meistrel@nwark.com) in Zone 6--Fayetteville, Arkansas

>I've been lurking on the list for about a year now and think it is time to
>pop a question to all of you.  I have been SQFT gardening for about 2 years
>now after using a somewhat similar method of intense planting in raised
>beds about 1' wide.
>
>What I was used to doing was growing all of my leaf lettuce by simply
>broadcast seeding it thickly over the growing area and producing a virtual
>"green carpet" of lettuce leaves that I would then harvest "cut and come
>again" style.
>
>Well, this year I decided to try Mel's spacing plans and just planted a few
>seeds in each square foot block.  It just about _killed_ me to do this.
> Please tell me I won't regret it.  I am having a hard time believing that
>I will get more lettuce leaves this way than from the way I was doing it
>before.
>
>Don Burrell
>Zone 5 in S.W. Mo.
>
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