I am getting excited about getting my little vegetable garden underway – first, because it’s fun to see stuff grow, and second, the recent prices of some vegetables. Two things I regularly enjoy from the produce department are spring onions and fresh lettuce.
Little clusters of onions have been selling s for 69-cents or so. They were $1.69 recently. We enjoy plucking young onion plants for the ground and eating them by themselves and we also like to cook with them or add to a dish. I have been passing on spring onions at the store – or scallions as some call them – because they are out-of-sight expensive. But if there is one thing my garden can grow – come rain or shine – it’s onions. My yard does pretty well with wild onions, too, but that’s a different story.
Lettuce is another fresh vegetable that is becoming increasingly expensive and less and less fresh. Iceberg lettuce is now priced well over $2, and they look like little shrunken heads of wilted lettuce. Another thing my garden grow very well is most any type of lettuce. It’s also convenient for me that lettuce and onions are about the only things that will grow in the upper part of my garden bed, which gets fewer sun rays as spring turns into summer.
I encourage those out there who don’t have a garden, to start at least a small one. I have a friend who filled a regular rain gutter with potting soil, hung it on a fence and grew a huge crop of leaf lettuce. Gardening is fun. Try it.
