garden tip (FBF)

Here's a garden tip from Carol: after you've harvested your lettuce and the weather's too hot for a second crop, sow new seed in late August and cover the row with straw. The lettuce will grow a bit in the cool fall weather before the frosts. The starts will then hunker down for the winter under the protective layer of straw. When spring rolls around, your lettuces already have roots down and will start growing again, and you'll have the earliest-possible greens. Here's Carol's row with lettuces and spinaches ready to eat in April.