I'm not quite sure what went wrong...but I have lettuce that is climbing for the sky and swiss chard that refuses to get any taller. Granted nothing had been planted in this bed for quite some time so the soil was dried out and totally neglected, but I still don't get why these two plants, side-by-side in the ground are having suck different reactions. The romaine lettuce refuses to grow in an actual head, but intead is growing taller and taller, and the other varieties are barely growing at all.
Luckily, they still taste good! I was amazed by how different home-grown lettuce tastes then store bought, even lettuce from the farmers market. Instead of mild mannered, sometime wattery romain, we have hartier lettuce with much more flavor, better texture and much more vivid colors.
So far we are only eating the romain and a little of the red leaf while we wait for the other varieties take their time getting established. The swiss chard we haven't tried yet since it still refuses to grow, so we're giving it some more time.
