The Demo Garden Blog

I have two weeks of leafy greens harvests to report today. The Grocery Garden has green and red butterhead lettuces that are at the baby leaf stage, a mesclun that is slightly larger than baby sized, and a lettuce mix that is at baby leaf stage.

Not a beautiful picture, I know. This is the “after” harvest shot of the Wildfire Lettuce Mix. We harvest the leaves down to almost nothing so that the plants stay smaller and the leaves more tender.

Harvest report from May 9th and May 16th: 

• 3.4 lbs baby lettuces @ $5.99 per lb = $20.62
• 0.86 lbs baby mesclun @ $5.99 per lb = $5.16

Total for past two weeks: $25.78

Year to Date Total = $33.98

Salad greens total up quickly, but the catch is you have to want to eat $10 worth of salad each week. That’s a lot of salad for some people!