Second Harvest of Iceberg Lettuce

Today was a good day to do another harvest of my iceberg lettuce.  Many of the lower leaves have reached the peak of how big they were going to get and this is when I like to pick them.  I picked several leaves and most of them were very large which I am happy about.

Today made a perfect day to pick them due to the rain they received early this morning.  I like to pick them after a rain because this will help the plant grow more leaves after I pick the ones that are ready right now.

I collected over five containers filled with iceberg lettuce leaves.  It sounds like quite a bit, but actually it most mostly because of the size that I needed five containers.  Just check out the size of these leaves.

I am actually holding this leaf in my hand and it completely covers my entire hand.  I would say that this was the average size of the leaves from my plants.  I am definitely not complaining because I will take size over quantity any day.  In total 72 iceberg lettuce leaves were collected this morning.

After this was done I moved on to place ropes on my bean trellis to allow my beans to climb up the trellis.  This keeps them off the ground and away from each other.  It took about two hours to complete the entire task.

On a side note I cut the middle of my lettuce plants because they were starting to partially go to seed.  I like to remove the center ones I see seeding beginning to start.  This helps to extend the season and if caught early the leaves will not turn bitter.

You can see a little bit above that this particular plant was ready to go to seed, but I cut this part out to extend the lettuce season.

I plan on tying off my tomatoes sometime this week.  They are starting to get big and producing flowers.  This means I will have to tie them very soon.  If it is good weather tomorrow I should have them done.