Organic produce in Colorado Springs
Lettuce Patch Gardens
Sustainably grown artisan vegetables
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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We are located in the Cheyenne Cañon area of Colorado Springs.

Our garden is small, but abundant. We started with five beds in our first season. We currently have sixteen beds in production.

We have beds in our own yard as well at the yards of neighbors.

If you would be interested in having some of our beds in your backyard, please see our requirements for bed locations, and contact us about your yard.

 

 

 

We start our seedlings in flats:

 

Once they are big enough, they are transplanted into the beds:

 

When the weather gets cool, these beds will be protected with mini-greenhouses:
In the winter, the plants are further protected with an inner cover that holds in the heat.

 

  

Our garden is fed with kitchen scraps, leaves and garden waste. This is the foundation of sustainable agriculture:

 
Unfinished compost: 3-6 months later we get:

 

The tools we use for gardening are all human-powered:
(We don't even use a roto-tiller)
Spades for digging; and forks for loosening the soil:
Spade Fork

 

 

 

Earth is here so kind,

that just tickle her with a hoe

and she laughs with a harvest

~Douglas Terrold

 

 

 

 

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Lettuce Patch Gardens, Inc.
Sustainably grown artisan vegetables
Cheryl Spencer, Owner & Market Gardener
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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