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- From: ramirez@julia.math.ucla.edu (Alice Ramirez)
- Subject: essential veggies to grow
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.045857.15192@math.ucla.edu>
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- Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 04:58:57 GMT
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- If we are going to discuss essential vegetables to grow, the ones that
- absolutely are inferior in the stores, I have to cast my vote for homegrown
- leaf lettuce. There is no comparison between the tender, picked-slightly-
- immature leafs grown at home and those motheaten heads of pale, medium
- and/or reddish lettuce (fully mature, large-leafed, somewhat tough, often
- beaten-up looking ) available at even the best markets. The only
- problem with growing your own leaf lettuce, picking it as mesclun or
- waiting until it's a little larger but still very young and tender is that
- you will never ever be happy with storebought lettuce again. (I am not
- mentioning iceburg lettuce because I don't consider iceburg lettuce to be
- food. This is my opinion, not necessarily the opinion of my employers
- or coworkers.)
-