Too much of a good thing is a .. not good thing.

Deb and I estimated last week around 15 pounds of lettuce still remained in the ground. There are two things I'd like to mention concerning our estimate.

1: We were greatly underestimating. We picked just a small fraction of it, and totaled 8 lbs.
2: The lettuce was growing so tightly packed that we found three areas under the row cover where air flow was reduced, and some mold killed a few lettuce plants.


When we found the problem, we decided to thin out the plants. Our "thinning" was 8 lbs worth of assorted lettuce. The problem was not evident anywhere except for when the bottoms of the lettuce stems were close to one another, and only underneath the row cover.  In the future, we will include earlier thinning of the lettuce, especially if it is in an area of reduced air flow, like a low tunnel or row cover.

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Total produce count for the year:

1/4 lb carrot roots

1 head of garlic

lots of  parsley

lots of peppermint

lots of spearmint

lots of lemon balm

lots of dill

3 trays of wheat grass(inside)

6.5 lb assorted dark greens

7/8 lb radishes/greens

12  5/8 lb assorted lettuce

1 1/3 lb spinach

1/8 lb turnip roots

5/8 lb miner's lettuce

3/16 lb mache/corn salad

5/8 lb young dark greens

3 trays micro  greens(grown inside)

1/3 lb arugula

3 asparagus spears