Sentence examples for lettuce patch from inspiring English sources

Who knew that these delicate stems would develop into a hulking bush that now shades out half my lettuce patch?

There were more fights, including a multiday brawl with a Chinese kid in my agriculture class who refused to give up even when I had his face shoved deep in the red mud of a lettuce patch.

Every gardener knows the temptation – you find snails ravaging your petunias or your lettuce patch, and rather than resorting to chemicals or messy beer traps, you sling the snails into your neighbour's garden and hope they won't come back.

The only exception was the dull-brown slippers on their feet, the same kind offered at the entrance of every temple in Kyoto, all of which were tiny and reminded me of the shoes that Peter Rabbit lost in the lettuce patch.

"Self regulation, aka the rabbits guarding the lettuce patch, is only partially effective," he said.

Osbon: My brief observation is that self regulation, aka the rabbits guarding the lettuce patch, is only partially effective.

"Pdvsa is teaching us to produce food in harmony with nature," said Kamal Saab, 40, who was outfitted in a straw hat and a blue Pdvsa jumpsuit and was standing in a patch of lettuce.

From his inner city veggie patch stocked with lettuce, beetroot and cabbage, Sydney resident Greg Bearup despairs at the government's handling of the carbon tax debate.

Behind the house, which is painted lettuce green, there's a patch of weedy earth and a heap of rusting car parts.

Arriving at the property early enough in the morning that it is still foggy and chilly, Peitso directs his foreman, Ramiro Navarro, in laying new irrigation pipe, while other workers laboriously hand-weed a patch of baby lettuce.

After 6 and 9 days of storage under constant darkness, the lettuce disks had large wet patches of darkened tissue.