Cliff Rohrabacher
07-09-2009, 7:00 PM
I love the stuff.
Some turn up their noses at it as if it were the trash that mere commoners eat but, I like it a lot, so more for me.
I especially enjoy it in wedges and dipped in bleu cheese dressing I make.
But I've never raised any so I don't know how it grows.
Does it grow from the inside out or the outside in?
Trees add growth on the outside beneath the bark and on top but a nail driven into a tree trunk won't be any higher off the ground in 50 years than it was the day it was driven in.
If Iceberg lettuce grows by adding leaves on the outer ball then the pesticides used to protect it will need a good washing off. If the stuff grows from the inside causing the outer leaves to continually expand then only the outer few leaves are suspect.
So which it is? Any sage and tillage wise gardners know?
Some turn up their noses at it as if it were the trash that mere commoners eat but, I like it a lot, so more for me.
I especially enjoy it in wedges and dipped in bleu cheese dressing I make.
But I've never raised any so I don't know how it grows.
Does it grow from the inside out or the outside in?
Trees add growth on the outside beneath the bark and on top but a nail driven into a tree trunk won't be any higher off the ground in 50 years than it was the day it was driven in.
If Iceberg lettuce grows by adding leaves on the outer ball then the pesticides used to protect it will need a good washing off. If the stuff grows from the inside causing the outer leaves to continually expand then only the outer few leaves are suspect.
So which it is? Any sage and tillage wise gardners know?