Plant them in a jug & HOS! It works great!!!
Maggie

Yep, HOS works fine with them, especially the leaf types and mesclun blends. I do several lettuce each year and I'm never disappointed.

I do red and green leaf and mesclun mix. Generally three milk jugs plants a huge patch of lettuce. HOS works great for me! I like it because it's such an early germinator and because it's so darn easy.

Thanks for the info everyone.

Ginger

I've never done veggies because of the fact that there are so many wild animals trapsing through my yard at night. I can't put up a fence, do how do you keep the veggies clean? I mean, if an animal defecates, etc. you can't just wash them.... I know it's dumb, but do you all have fences for your veggies? Thanks - Carrie

You'll notice if an animal defecates in your garden, you see disturbed soil IF they've attempted to bury it. You could put some lemon juice in the final rinse water and soak your veggies for a few minutes, the acidic acid could have some neutralizing effect on any likely pathogens. Honestly, I just put the lettuce in a rinsing salad spinner, put it under the faucet and then crank the spinner to centrifuge out the moisture.

With any fresh veggie you have to wash them very well. I have never had an animal "make" in my veggies, one of the cats digs around under the flowers but I could care if he does his business there, and he buries it anyway.

Maybe you could get wire wicket fecning--it comes in two heights--about a foot tall and knee high. It's a bunch of folding sections and you just shove it into the ground--it has wire ends that you push right in. It's cheap for the foot high version, the taller one costs more but it's quite sufficient.

My husband has decided to fence off a huge area just for veggies - now I have to learn about growing veggies from seed - I guess if I can do flowers, I can do veggies (right?)

Are there are veggies that you DON'T do HOS? I am thinking I will do HOS for the lettuce but what else works?

Thanks

Carrie