Does lettuce have a place in a survival garden?

Leaf lettuce starts after one month!

During hard economic times, ANYTHING a home owner does that eases the pocketbook is a good thing. In my life, vegetable salads play a big role. Most every lunch and dinner has a salad in it somewhere. With a head if iceberg lettuce running at $1.30 and more, there's nothing wrong with planting a tray or two of lettuce starts you began yourself from seed. (The cost for seed and soil is minimal and, if you plant romaine lettuce, you're getting more nutrition to boot)!

Fresh romaine lettuce

In additional to the romaine lettuce, I also like to plant carrots, peppers ans onions. All these have a welcome spot in the salad bowel too! In addition, both the carrots and onions can spend time hanging out in the soil for long periods after they are of 'picking' size. This helps me to create salads according to my schedule and needs. That plain old romaine lettuce also contributes to the mix with about four calories per ounce! All things considered, this is a must have addition to any garden, survivalist or not!

Remember that most any piece of ground that is well drained can grow veggies. Even a small four foot square area can produce enough salad material to keep a person out of the produce isle for much of the summer! Add a little more space and some canning equipment and you can stretch a harvest on into the winter months.

Intro to this blog

I’m not sure where I came up with this as a title for a blog. I mean how can one be casual in a survival situation? Would one have to be lazy (I am), brain dead (that’s me) or just a bit slow-witted (bingo)?

The thing is, we are living in tough times that are about to get way tougher. If you understand the basic rules of economics, then you realize that at some point, the rest of the world will wake up to the fact this country is bankrupt! In the not too distant future, the failing American dollar will become the ‘kaput dollar’! When that happens, you can bet your fanny that food prices (if I can paraphrase our great president) will ‘necessarily skyrocket’!

That’s where this blog comes in. I plan to post short articles here on vegetables that can be grown anywhere in the Midwest, which anyone can grow, and which will provide the most nutrient bang for the buck.  So, hopefully, some readers will stop by from time to time to read and maybe even comment on.