So again sorry for the long blog interval, but I've been on a Fertilizer Mission. I've been meaning to post this feature from almost a month ago. This summer we worked with a very large grower that is one of the biggest lettuce growers in Florida, but is actually based out of Michigan. They wanted to see if they could grow certain varieties of lettuce here in Michigan, and we crossed paths and set up some trials. They planted this trial in July and it just had a sample harvest here in late September. A dry base fertilizer was applied and supplemental AgroLiquid nutrition was applied through drip tape. They had not used drip tape fertilizer before, but in the end were very pleased with the outcome. It certainly was a pretty test. (I borrowed this pic from Stephanie. Sadly it was better than one that I took from the other end of the field. It was too far to walk all the way down here.)
Growing lettuce and other vegetables is a lot of work with hand labor for planting, weeding and harvesting. But at least you can eat what you grow. They packaged some of the Head and Romaine lettuce and if fed quite a few of us Liquid-ites both at the farm and the office in town. It looks like what you get in the store, but it's from the NCRS! So we proved that you can grow good lettuce with AgroLiquid. Who knew? Well we did but it's nice to convince the growers. We will see what happens from this next year. By the way, I really liked salads with the Coeurs de Romaine. Who wouldn't.
I was surprised that there was no damage from deer or rabbits, as we did not fence this. I guess here at the NCRS they are used to eating corn and soybeans and stayed away.
