Butterhead Lettuce Ready for Picking

Getting the first harvest of the season is always exciting especially if it is a vegetable or leaf that you love to eat.  I love using lettuce in salads and sandwiches and are just the perfect leaves for any dish.

Today was a good day to start picking the first harvest of lettuce.  I only picked from some of the first plants that were ready to go into the garden.  Not all of my lettuce plants were ready for picking and I only focused on four of them which happened to be butterhead lettuce.

It didn't take that long to pick and it took more time to clean them off.  It rained recently and much of the dirt got on most of the older leaves.  These are the leaves I picked today, but later I will pick all the bigger and greener leaves when the time is right.

From this picture it doesn't look like I picked any leaves from this plant.  This is mainly due to the fact I picked all the older leaves which were smaller and hidden underneath all the larger leaves you see here.  In the next harvest you will definitely notice a difference with more leaves picked.

Picking Iceberg Lettuce Leaves for the First Time This Season

I finally just started picking my lettuce leaves today and I was able to collect quite a few for the first harvest of 2016.  In total I got 70 leaves from only my iceberg lettuce and my Ruby glow hybrid are not ready yet and I will begin picking those leaves or the whole plant within a couple of weeks or so depending on weather conditions. 

Since it rained yesterday some of the leaves got some dirt on them which is nothing to fret about because I usually wash all the leaves I pick.  Soaking them in water is a good way to remove all the dirt from the leaves if you have never picked lettuce leaves before.

I also decided on taking some pictures of one of my plants just before I started picking leaves from it.  I wanted to see the difference between before harvesting and just after harvesting them.

The plants still look good and I wouldn't be surprised if I get plenty of more harvests from these plants.  I also am looking forward to picking some of my Ruby glow hybrid leaves.  I didn't get to pick them last year and was hoping to pick them this season and see how good they taste compared to iceberg or green lettuce.