I am SO jealous that you are able to
grow lettuce and tomatoes all year around... I can only get about one good months of harvest out of my garden (UGH).
During the long dry season farmers here depend on irrigation to water their vegetable crops,
growing lettuce and tomatoes, green beans and onions, mangos and melons for urban markets all over the country and for export to Europe.
Not exact matches
For
grown - ups, serve in a pita pocket with
lettuce and tomatoes.
My perfect BLT
and the one I
grew up eating (not that there's much of a differentiation between what you're probably used to), was simple — perfectly ripe farmer's market
tomatoes (or garden
tomatoes) dusted with a little bit of salt
and pepper
and layered with crisp iceberg
lettuce, at least four pieces of crispy bacon (flimsy bacon is a crime in my household)
and then smooched between toasted whole - wheat sandwich bread smothered with light mayo.
Summer is too hot for
lettuce to
grow but perfect for cucumbers,
tomatoes,
and peppers.
Lettuce,
tomato, carrots, fresh herbs
and berries are easy to
grow and will lower your grocery bill.
So far the kids
and I have done some planting, mostly container planting
and have managed to successfully
grow beans, peppers (from seed),
tomatoes (also from seed), peas, carrots, radishes
and lettuce.
He brought the knowledge back to Canada to
grow tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers
and lettuce.
Antonio Russo initially sold fresh
tomatoes,
lettuce and beans he had
grown on a small plot of farmland at the marketplace of Boston's historic Faneuil Hall in the 1920s.
We are lucky here in Perth that we can still
grow tomatoes and lettuce all year round
and this is what usually forms the basis of our night time salad.
Tomatoes have begun to flower giving me enough time to cure bacon, plant
and grow lettuce.
From scratch means: You
grow your
tomato, you
grow your
lettuce, you cure your own bacon or pancetta, you bake your own bread (wild yeast preferred
and gets higher marks but is not required), you make your own mayo.
Amaranth (Chinese Spinach) Artichokes Asparagus Asparagus Pea Beans Beets Bitter Melons
and Wax Gourds Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Burdock (Gobo) Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Chinese (Napa) Cabbage Citron Melon (For candied citron, pies, etc.) Cantaloupes
and Melons Cardoon Celery Chervil Chicory Chives Collards Corn
and Ornamental Corn Cover Crops Cowpeas Cucumbers Eggplant Endive Fava Beans Finocchio Garland Chrysanthemum Gourds
and Decorative Squash Jicama (Mexican Yam) Kale Kohlrabi Leeks
Lettuce and Mesclun Loofah (Luffa) Sponges Malabar Spinach Mache (Corn Salad) Micro Greens (Baby Greens) Minutina (Buckshorn Plaintain) Mustard
and Other Greens Oats (Hulless Oats for cereal) Okra Onions / Scallions Orach (Mountain Spinach) Ornamental Corn
and Grain Pak Choi / Bak Choi Parsley Peas: Early Spring Peanuts Peppers Super Hot Peppers Popcorn Pumpkins Quinoa (Cereal, Superfood) Radicchio Radish Ramps (Wild Leeks) Rhubarb Rice (Can be
grown in garden soil) Rutabaga Salsify (Oyster Plant) Saltwort Scorzonea Shallots (From Seed) Sorghum Soybeans Spinach Squash Summer Type
and Zucchini Squash Winter Type Squash Japanese Kabocha Type Squash (Fall
and Winter Decorations) Strawberry Sugar Beets Swiss Chard
Tomatoes Turnip Watermelon
Growing up, a simple salad was usually always served before a meal, with
lettuce,
tomato and cucumber
and a light vinaigrette.
Some predict that virtually all certified organic
tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers
and lettuce will eventually be hydroponically
grown.
I will fill in the gaps with lots of greens, baby
lettuces that I'm
growing on my deck, roasted beets, fresh pineapple salsa, roasted green beans, peppers, cherry
tomatoes, zucchini noodles
and Brussel's sprouts.
New lunch standouts include
Grown Up Mac
and Cheese (spinach,
tomato, mushrooms
and bacon); Carrot Ginger Soup; Lobster Roll (lemon, scallion
and toasted on a brioche bun); Bibb
Lettuce Salad (fresh peas, radish, egg on mustard vinaigrette).
Thanks to the spring
and summer climate we were able to
grow an abundance of cherry
and grape
tomatoes in red, yellow
and orange, arugula, three kinds of
lettuce, radishes, celery, parsley, dill
and even one melon.
Expand your taste horizons
and discover new favorites by sampling over 15 different varieties
grown by Green City Market farmers;
lettuces in the spring, berries in summer, carrots,
tomatoes and everyone's favorite apples!
I
grow zucchini, cucumbers (bush plants), many many
tomatoes,
lettuce, rutabagas, peas, lots of potatoes (two seasons worth), asparagus (this takes years to get going), peppers, carrots,
and pole beans (a must have for anyone with a crunch for space).
EA: When I used to garden with my dad,
and I wanted to see the plants, the
lettuce, the
tomatoes and everything come right away, he said, «Son, listen, look at the little flower that
grew.
For novice gardeners, seed company W. Atlee Burpee & Co. has created a «Money Garden» seed pack that costs $ 10
and can produce $ 650 worth of easy - to -
grow carrots,
tomatoes,
lettuce, beans, peas
and peppers.
For example, «
lettuce or
tomatoes may be contaminated, but once they enter a household, you can make sure that you do nt allow the bacteria to
grow and multiply,» he says.
Use fast -
growing lettuces and radishes as a living mulch around slow -
growing plants like
tomatoes and cabbages.
They also found that other organic staples they
grew, including wheat,
tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, onions,
and lettuce also contained 20 % to 40 % more nutrients than their conventional counterparts.
Hydroponically
grown, Gotham Greens produces a gorgeous selection of unique
and delicious
lettuces, basil,
and tomatoes.
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.
They
grew green beans, cucumbers,
tomatoes,
lettuce, spinach,
and a variety of herbs.
Salad is a delicious side that is frequently used in the Dominican Republic thanks to the island's home -
grown lettuce, papaya, passion fruit, citrus fruits
and tomatoes.
Basil, parsley, mint,
and other common herbs can be found in freshly painted discarded tin cans
and plastic buckets, while
tomatoes, strawberries,
lettuce and arugula
grow in disused kitchen saucepans
and pots.
Tomatoes and lettuce might
grow amazingly well in soil, but they can also thrive when
grown in either a hydroponic, aeroponic, or aquaponic setup.
I
grow my own
tomatoes, pineapples, oranges, bananas, lemons,
lettuce, corn, cucumbers, beans
and capsicum.
A re-circulating aquaponic garden
grows all the edible ingredients for fish tacos including peppers,
tomatoes, onions, corn,
and lettuce, with zero waste, no soil
and no fertilizer in nine bins filled with gravel.
There are evenings when the last thing my family
and I feel like eating is yet another shredded cabbage salad, or roasted cabbage, or sautéed cabbage, but we do it, because substituting a salad of California -
grown Romaine
lettuce with
tomatoes and cucumbers in February is completely unsustainable
and ridiculous.
The farm has two
growing seasons: a spring season with
lettuces, greens, radishes,
and broccoli,
and a summer season with
tomatoes, peppers,
and a few other hardy vegetables.
So far beans,
tomatoes, cucumbers, arugula, basil,
lettuce and kale seem to have embraced the notion of
growing in windows.
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...
Moored on the Hudson River, it
grows and harvests
lettuce, cucumbers
and tomatoes in a greenhouse using rain
and energy from solar panels
and wind turbines
and biofuels.
I'd love to
grow some
lettuce for salad,
and top it with
tomatoes and veggies I
grew myself.
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.