Pat on Connie Lahr from Maple Lake, Minnesota.  Two of our most active certified SFG teachers, are showing kids how to grow veggies in the Square Foot Gardening way.

Again this year the First Grade Students in "Maple Lake Elementary" are experiencing the growth of lettuce grown in warmth and self-watering in the school; and comparing this to lettuce transplanted outdoors on April 29.

The overturned bucket on the indoor bed provides continuous rainwater from the bottom to the plants; outdoors, since we may yet experience a light frost, the lettuce plants were given a protective milk jug cover.   Over 40 of the 68 First Graders took a lettuce plant home for their family garden.   This lettuce can be harvested from the bottom up, 2-3 leaves a day and is tolerant to both cold and heat, harvesting through late June, .

Welcome to everyone at the May 18 Square Foot Gardening OPEN GARDEN to receive a Queensland Non-Hearting Leaf Lettuce for your garden.

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