Post by famfish on Mar 9, 2009 23:13:26 GMT -6
I put in two beds of Lettuce this week! I dug the ground and made a small long pit about 15 inches deep about 15 feet long and 5 feet wide. At the bottom you need something to give off heat like manure or nitrogen fertilizler like urea or blood meal. I used rabbit hay and rabbit manure mixed. The grass seeds usually don't come up since they are too deep from the hay. Put about 10 inches of soil on top the mix! Now add the lettuce seeds and mix in some spinich and border it with onions and a ew radish and also some carrots plus some broccoli seeds. Cover the seeds with about a inch of soil and if too much clay add a little sand.tramp down the soil and cover with a clear plactic cover while putting dirt around the edges to hold it down. take a pitch fork or something pointed and make lots of small holes in the plastic. The plastic will keep the moisture in the soil while letting in a little water from the rain. In about10 days to 2 weeks depending on the outside temperature the seeds will start to strout. Take the cover off once the seeds show their two leaves. If temperature goes below 25 degrees cover the crop over night! Snow should not hurt it unless it really gets to 10 degrees. This is the time of the year to start a bed in Pa. and Ohio!
