Just buy a window box. I bought one that had a resevoir in the bottom to hold extra water b/c I am lazy and don’t like to carry water through the house to my deck if I don’t have to (I live in a 2-family house on the second floor). I filled it with soil until about 2 inches from the top. I scattered the seeds around (don’t worry about using too much -you can get rid of the extra seedlings later), and then covered it with a light dusting of soil. Three days later I saw seedlings!

And now I am eating the lettuce. They can tolerate a light frost (or you can give them a little blanket for the cold nights-use something to cover it up.), but they don’t like hot weather. 55-60F and wet, cool weather they enjoy.

It is SO easy that I can’t imagine NOT growing lettuce. And you can just take some of the leaves and leave the rest of the plant in the ground to keep growing.

I encourage anyone who wants to eat healthy and frugally to give it a try!

Kris in JP

I generally try this sort of thing, but I have abig man partner who is convinced that meat is an important part of every meal!! but we do go to our local very good butcher – and I do make stock from the bones. its hard with the portion sizes too – my man wants to eat very large amounts. he really should cut down too…. but its hard to control someone else.