Protect your lettuce and keep your garden thriving with these creative cover ideas. Discover how to keep pests away and ensure healthy growth for your lettuce plants.
Trellis laid on an angle for climbing plants. This trellis is a good solution for heavier climbers such as squash and watermelon because of its thickness and strength of the wood panel. Once the vines start climbing the trellis, they provide shade for lettuces underneath.
Julia Dimakos | Tea Gardening for Beginners on Instagram: "Once again, the mesh wastebaskets have saved another crop! If you remember my post about a bunny in the garden chewing down the bush bean and lettuce plants? I had covered these lettuce plants a couple weeks ago, went away for over a week and came back to the lettuce plants pushing off the wastebaskets. It’s time to take them off and give these plants some space! 💡It’s not too late to sow a fall crop of lettuce plants. You can sow…
How to Make a Raised Garden Bed Cover With Hinges: This Instructable will take you through the process of making hinged covers for your raised garden beds. This will help you keep all the wildlife out of your garden and prevent them from eating all your plants. A bunch of my plants that were well …
Like most of the country, we are in the middle of a heat wave. With temperatures (outside my gravel garden) hovering near 90 degrees, I am praying for my lettuce. I am hoping to get another month or so out of it before it turns bitter. Gardening books advise providing greens with midafternoon shade. Our good friend Sandy gave me scraps of shade cloth from her commercial greenhouse and I cut a piece to fit over my frost frame. Will it cool the lettuce? Or just absorb heat? Who knows. The wide…