Sentences with phrase «growing lettuce as»

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I know you've written about never cutting lettuce and never putting down your fork while eating salad in France but the iceberg looks to be a significant logistical challenge even if its scale is not as grand as an American - grown specimen.

Use fast - growing lettuces and radishes as a living mulch around slow - growing plants like tomatoes and cabbages.

Make sure to also check the «sell by» and «use by» dates of bagged lettuce carefully, as E. coli might grow more rapidly on older greens.

Fresh lettuce is easy to find in supermarkets and farmers» markets, as well as being simple to grow at home.

There is no salad in the world as wonderful as the one you grow yourself, especially for students who have never tasted a homegrown tomato or pulled lettuce and other salad fixings from the rich earth.

«I wanted the lettuce and eggs at room temperature... the butter - and - sugar sandwiches we ate after school for snack... the marrow bones my mother made us eat as kids that I grew to crave as an adult... There would be no «conceptual» or «intellectual» food, just the salty, sweet, starchy, brothy, crispy things that one craves when one is actually hungry.

Rabbits eat an assortment of greens such as romaine and other dark leaf lettuce, collard greens, kale, parsley, and cilantro, which you can grow in your own home garden vegetable patch.

The USDA / NASS studies tracked harvested acres without differentiating between irrigated and non-irrigated acreage; it gathered data on planted vs. harvested acres for some crops but not others; it did not account for systems in which «baby vegetable» crops (usually organic) are grown in short rotations on the same plot (such as spinach, lettuce, and carrots) and thus have lower yields; and it omitted some data that would have revealed too much information about individual farmers, in cases where very few growers produce a particular crop.

Leaf lettuce Growing leaf lettuce (and other leafy greens) in the same container as my tomatoes acts as a living mulch which helps keep the soil cooler, and reduces the chances of spreading diseases from water and soil splashing on the leaves.

With California producing nearly half of the fruit and vegetables grown in the United States, attention has naturally focused on the water required to grow popular foods such as walnuts, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries, almonds and grapes... But for those truly interested in lowering their water footprint, those numbers pale next to the water required to fatten livestock...

Over the years, I've grown lettuce, spinach, peas, cauliflower, broccoli, squash, pumpkins, rhubarb, tomatoes, asparagus, beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and about as many herbs.