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Box of lettuce

Oct 27th, 2008 by Patti | 0

  Box of leaf lettuce

Don’t have much space but love really fresh salad…here’s one of our boxes of lettuce.
Very simple. We got a banana box from a local grocer (actually, we’ve gotten many banana boxes). Typically it comes with a plastic liner bag with aeration holes. We double the box by putting the bottom half into [...]

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Salad in a Banana Box

Sep 2nd, 2008 by Sandy | 2

With the FDA’s new ruling to allow irradiation of lettuce and spinach we are glad that we can easily grow our own.
Here is an inexpensive way to do it with a free banana box from the grocery store, half of a $6 sack of potting soil and a $2 packet of seeds. Or, as I [...]

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