sf wrote:
> On 21 Sep 2005 14:31:40 -0700, Sheldon wrote:
>
> >
> > sf wrote:
> > > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:44:26 GMT, Phred wrote:
> > >
> > > > G'day mates,
> > > >
> > > > My "traditional" salad (i.e. the only one I ever make for myself)
> > > > consists of chopped lettuce (strips about... lemme see, better
> > > > translate... 3/8" to 1/2" wide by 1/2" to 1" long, cut with a kni=
fe)
> > > > and the other usual ingredients for a tossed salad (chopped tomat=
o and
> > > > onion, grated carrot, diced spuds, sometimes chopped hard boiled =
eggs,
> > > > and so on). So when someone says to use "torn lettuce" I'm left
> > > > wondering how much it should be torn.
> > >
> > > I tear Bibb/Butter lettuce, but I chop Romaine.
> >
> > With an oriental dressing I like romaine finely shredded, for a
> > sieze-her I use the smaller inner leaves whole, for tossed with a
> > creamy dressing I tear the green off the ribs, the ribs make a nice
> > cooks treat with whatever dip is going, clam is my fav. I grow my own
> > romaine... yoose would be amazed at how huge they grow... 18" wide and
> > 3' tall is normal, I kid you not. Romain is one of the easiest
> > lettuces to grow... the trick is to start teh plants early in a cold
> > frame and put them in teh ground as soon as therre's no chance of a
> > hard frost... lettuce does not like hot weather, two days over 80=BAF =
it
> > starts to bolt.
> >
> You sound like a real gardener. My grandfather did that sort of thing
> and my brother does it now.
>
> <sniffle>
> sf
> feeling nostalgic

No reason you can't garden too. Right now is bulb planting time in the
northeast. I already put in 300 daffodils, another 300 to go. And I
found a great way to dig the holes:

http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page...3D2,2200,33263

http://tinyurl.com/3zmxc

Sheldon