Gretchen and I got our first planting done today. The garden was tilled last weekend, and it was nice enough to get back in today. We planted an eight-foot bed of Burpee Gourmet Blend Lettuce — a blend of five different varieties of leaf lettuce in shades of green and red, consisting of Grand Rapids, Royal Oak Leaf, Salad Bowl, Red Salad Bowl, and Ruby. We’ll hopefully be harvesting this somewhere around June 8th to 13th. We planted another eight-foot row of Burpee Classic Mesclun Salad Greens. Finally in the lettuce category, we planted an eight-foot bed of Little Caesar Romaine Lettuce, which we should harvest around July 3rd. We should start thinning all of these starting around May 4th to 7th. Moving on to the non-lettuce salad greens, we also planted a six-foot row of Burpee Baby’s Leaf Hybrid Spinach, which we ought to harvest between May 24th and June 4th.
We planted a ten-foot row of Agway (Seedway) Dwarf White Sugar Peas, which should be ready to harvest in around June 13th, and a row of Agway Little Marvel Peas, which should be ready to harvest around June 26th.
We also planted three forty-foot rows of yellow onions. We’ll plant another row when we get more seed. We weren’t certain how much to get. It worked out to about a pound per row.