First harvest!

After the endless days of toil, working the fields in the pelting rain, the howling wind, the biting cold -- harvest season has come at last!

As you can see, the lettuce has been growing fairly nicely. It's been under the lights 24-7 for what, about 4 weeks now? The leaves are big enough to make fairly respectable salad greens.

So I went at them with a pair of scissors.

OK, fine, I didn't get a whole lot.

I only went for the biggest ones. I want the smaller ones to keep growing so I can get another harvest out of it ASAP. So next harvest could possibly be bigger. Maybe. Or maybe not. It'll be another week at least before the second patch is ready.

Regardless, I think it was wildly optimistic to aim for being self-sufficient in salad greens in six months. Salad sufficiency may take a larger investment in infrastructure.


Still, it was pretty damn good lettuce. It doesn't get any fresher. And food miles? What food miles? We're talking food feet.

Dedicated readers will recall that I'm doing it wrong. I haven't put the shower cap on. I'm going to let it go for now and see how it works out. When this part has run its course, I'll try doing it right with the next crop. At least, that's what I'm saying for now.