January 7, 2019 | #256 |
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Saw ants waving my lettuce seeds around yesterday.
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January 8, 2019 | #258 |
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This is just an excuse to post photos, but Red Sails is my favorite. It's quite heat resistant. I have found that aphids do not bother this lettuce at all.
As someone mentioned previously. Tokyo Bekana mustard is a quite superb lettuce alternative, the flavor is very mild so it can almost pass as lettuce. Unfortunately, aphids and flea beetles love it. |
January 8, 2019 | #259 |
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Is that swiss chard or red veined sorrel growing, jane?
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January 8, 2019 | #260 |
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January 8, 2019 | #261 |
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Your lettuce looks wonderful! Are you greenhouse-growing?
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Photos appreciated
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It's the dead of winter....by all means post!
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January 25, 2019 | #263 |
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Thinning mesclun
I'm growing three containers for baby mesclun salad. How much should I thin the seedlings? This is today......
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January 25, 2019 | #264 |
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I don’t know that I would thin those all that much. I don’t grow a head to full size then pull the whole thing out; I harvest the outside leaves as I need them. So I grow mine fairly close together.
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January 25, 2019 | #265 |
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I think the density looks fine for cut-and-come-again.
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January 25, 2019 | #266 |
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Thanks for the advice Jane and Bower. I know I can always get answer on Tomatoville.
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February 3, 2019 | #267 |
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Winter mesclun
All 3 trays looking good.
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February 3, 2019 | #268 |
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I have always been a spring/summer lettuce grower with Romaine and any green leaf lettuce being my standards. Last fall, I became a fall/winter lettuce grower with the same varieties. We have had a few freezes this winter and the lettuce varieties have not suffered at all. My Romaine is starting to bolt in the cold weather. I don't plan on growing any spring lettuce this spring and simply rotate my beds from spring tomato, pepper, onion, cucumber, squash, and eggplants to fall /winter leaf vegetable beds in the fall..
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February 20, 2019 | #269 |
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I've got lettuce that has survived 0 to -1 degrees, it took a little damage to the edges of the leaves,but it will be fine.
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February 21, 2019 | #270 |
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I think there's a fair genetic variation in the lettuces, as to how tolerant they are of cold to freezing temperatures. And there are a lot of factors that modify the microclimate around the plant, eg soil moisture/temperature if higher will actually keep the plant above freezing for the night as the ground loses its heat.
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