we’ve got this great garden. only thing is, this time of year, only thing edible growing in it is lettuce (no not weed that is not that kind of edible and that’s in one of the neighbor’s greenhouse. i think. i haven’t asked). best lettuce you’ll ever eat (homegrown lettuce will have you spitting out any other lettuce you eat the rest of your life it’s that much better. it’s a texture thing. it’s both soft and crunchy and fuck i’m gonna go make a salad brb. also has flavor) and is incredibly easy to grow. so like, be really sure you want to grow lettuce the rest of your life or give up salads and shit.
sorry, i had a point before i got distracted by lettuce. community garden. we have kind of turned our backyards into a community garden, since we all grow tomatoes and oranges or lemons and zucchini and shit. zone 8 or 9 or something. some of us either have better soil or better talent for some things. we have the best blackberry bush. so a group of us have agreed to grow more of some things so we don’t have to grow others, we can just get it from the neighbors kind of thing. it’s great if you can organize with neighbors you can trust not to take advantage like we have
Community gardens are fantastic! I’ve only just started getting into gardening. My parents have done it for a long time and use cold frames so that they can get food 10 months of the year.
Lettuce is super easy - some of its even made its way into my lawn from when I let it go to seed one year, lol.
My favorite trick is using an empty cat litter pail (the big ones with a lid, not the pour able ones), drill some holes in the bottom, put in a layer of rocks for drainage, and the rest with soil. It’s a great pot for growing sale greens, and the handle makes it fantastic for if I need to move it around. We can’t recycle the cat litter packs in my county so this is what I do with them
we’ve got this great garden. only thing is, this time of year, only thing edible growing in it is lettuce (no not weed that is not that kind of edible and that’s in one of the neighbor’s greenhouse. i think. i haven’t asked). best lettuce you’ll ever eat (homegrown lettuce will have you spitting out any other lettuce you eat the rest of your life it’s that much better. it’s a texture thing. it’s both soft and crunchy and fuck i’m gonna go make a salad brb. also has flavor) and is incredibly easy to grow. so like, be really sure you want to grow lettuce the rest of your life or give up salads and shit.
sorry, i had a point before i got distracted by lettuce. community garden. we have kind of turned our backyards into a community garden, since we all grow tomatoes and oranges or lemons and zucchini and shit. zone 8 or 9 or something. some of us either have better soil or better talent for some things. we have the best blackberry bush. so a group of us have agreed to grow more of some things so we don’t have to grow others, we can just get it from the neighbors kind of thing. it’s great if you can organize with neighbors you can trust not to take advantage like we have
Community gardens are fantastic! I’ve only just started getting into gardening. My parents have done it for a long time and use cold frames so that they can get food 10 months of the year.
Lettuce is super easy - some of its even made its way into my lawn from when I let it go to seed one year, lol.
My favorite trick is using an empty cat litter pail (the big ones with a lid, not the pour able ones), drill some holes in the bottom, put in a layer of rocks for drainage, and the rest with soil. It’s a great pot for growing sale greens, and the handle makes it fantastic for if I need to move it around. We can’t recycle the cat litter packs in my county so this is what I do with them