Originally Posted by
CDTraveler
You live in San Francisco? Mixed green salad is easily attainable for you. It takes 2 30inch long plastic planter boxes, 2 bags of potting mix, and a couple packets of heritage and mixed lettuce seeds. We had 7 different kinds of lettuce in our planter beds this past summer, and harvested a few leaves off of several varieties each night to make salads. Periodically harvest a couple mature plants and seed where you removed them. In SF you should be able to keep a planter of lettuce going nearly year round, ours in now under 4 inches of snow.
thank you! I’m screen shotting your suggestion so that I’ll pdf it and keep it in gardening tips.
For now I’m buying lettuce at Costco. I really just make mixed salads with one kind of lettuce and then assorted vegetables for the salad. Definitely avocado because I believe it’s good for anti-cholesterol so it offsets the cow meat that I eat :-)