I went to a little open air market today. Very small- only about 6 tables, but I was on the hunt for romaine lettuce, and I spotted it. OH MY GOSH, the thing was huge. It cost 600 pesos, which was just over a dollar, but it could have fed an entire family of 10. I am attaching a photo, as I don't seem to have a better story or photo right now. The food grown here is very big- a basketball sized cabbage, corn that is not called corn is the diameter of a softball. It looks like corn on steroids. Anyway, I brought the romaine home and washed it, and now it takes up the entire bottom shelf of the frig.
when we lived in holland, my mom was longing for iceberg lettuce (back in the late 60's). she asked our green grocer who pulled up in our driveway a couple times a week about this type of lettuce. well this guy writes to some seed company in the U.S., gets the seeds, and grows it for her. proudly, he arrives at our door one summer day with a head of lettuce the size of a basketball. the outside leaf fed our family of 4. with the long summer daylight (20 hours) everything grows big! is that what causes veggies to be big down there?
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