Growing Money

I think one of the best savings the last few months has been growing our own lettuces. We don’t have a garden at the moment as it is still basically a building site so everything has been grown in containers. It would of course be much cheaper growing straight into soil – maybe next summer. I have found you can pretty much grow lettuces in anything – two of my happiest lettuces the last few weeks were grown together in a 2 litre icecream container! Growing them in pots such as icecream containers or small pots has been quite nice as you can grab a container and bring it in for meal time to pick your lettuce leaves. You can also sit down somewhere comfortable with the pot on your knee when it comes to pest control day and pick off all your insects by hand. You can also move an infested pot away from other lettuces while you try to get the pest numbers down. There’s a good article here on various types of lettuces that this grower is trialling in their garden if you don’t know much about different varieties http://www.garden-nz.co.nz/grow-your-own/grow-your-own/lettuce-be-friends.html