{"id":765,"date":"2011-07-07T10:38:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=765"},"modified":"2011-07-01T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:42:39","slug":"lettuce-and-spinach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Lettuce and Spinach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lettuce and Spinach earliest planting in back to new planting in front<\/p><\/div>\n

I love love love having lettuce and Spinach in the garden.\u00a0 I’m a big salad person and it is great to be able make one anytime you want.\u00a0 My husband and I have found that when planting lettuce and spinach it’s better to stagger the planting rather than plant a whole row.\u00a0 We never eat a whole row of lettuce and spinach before it starts to flower.\u00a0 Once they flower the leaves start to turn bitter.\u00a0 By staggering the planting I can continually have lettuce and spinach throughout the season.<\/p>\n

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Spring mix variety<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lettuce is a pretty easy plant to grow.\u00a0 It is tolerant to cold weather, which is great around here.\u00a0 I usually get two different varieties.\u00a0 One is a spring mix and the other a buttercrisp. The spring mix is a mix of different lettuce varieties put together.\u00a0 I like those because you get a colorful and different tasting variety.\u00a0 Some leaves are purple others have a different leave shape.\u00a0 Some taste a little bitter or more salty, and some are sweeter.\u00a0 I also plant a buttercrisp variety which is your usual green leaf lettuce.\u00a0 I happen to like the taste of this variety so if I were you just pick a variety that is your favorite.\u00a0 I don’t usually have any problems with the lettuce I guess the only issue I have is sometimes when I pick them there are earwigs on them.\u00a0 I absolutely can’t stand earwigs.\u00a0 So before bringing the heads in the house to wash I just give them a good shake.\u00a0 The lettuce when I pick it sometimes feels a little wilted but that isn’t a problem.\u00a0 All you need to do is bring it in and wash it really good and put it in a container and then put it in the fridge.\u00a0 It crisps right up after it chills for a while.<\/p>\n

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Spinach<\/p><\/div>\n

Spinach is nice to have but takes a little more work to grow.\u00a0 I haven’t been very successful with growing spinach.\u00a0 This year has been better than most.\u00a0 Spinach loves sandy soil and we just don’t have that.\u00a0 Our soil has a lot of clay and makes it really tough for spinach to thrive.\u00a0 The best solution would be for us to amend our soil with some sand but we just have not done that yet.\u00a0 Another problem I have discovered is that something is eating my spinach.\u00a0 The leaves were turning a weird almost opaque color.\u00a0 At first glance I thought it might have some kind of fungus.\u00a0 Then I picked a leave and noticed some kind of grub eating between the outer layers of the leaf.\u00a0 Yuck! I don’t want that in my salad.\u00a0 I don’t usually like to use pesticides or harsh fertilizers on my garden.\u00a0 This time I decided if I wanted spinach I had to do something.\u00a0 So I removed all the infected leaves and spayed on Fungicide 3.\u00a0 It’s a product from garden safe.\u00a0 It is supposed to be a fungicide, insecticide, and miticide all in one.\u00a0 I’m not sure what I’m trying to kill so I’m not sure if this will work.\u00a0 You’re supposed to spray it on every 7 to 10 days until all leaves are uninfected.\u00a0 I sprayed it on last week and again today.\u00a0 Each time I remove the infected leaves.\u00a0 Hopefully the spinach starts to look better soon.\u00a0 Do you have any ideas?<\/p>\n

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Infected Spinach Leaf<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love love love having lettuce and Spinach in the garden.\u00a0 I’m a big salad person and it is great to be able make one anytime you want.\u00a0 My husband and I have found that when planting lettuce and spinach it’s better to stagger the planting rather than plant a whole row.\u00a0 We never eat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,58,33,16],"tags":[59,25,56,27],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-health","category-hobbies","category-projects","tag-garden","tag-health","tag-projects","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}