Your Favorite Lettuce - Page 18

Worth1 · January 7, 2019

Saw ants waving my lettuce seeds around yesterday.

PlainJane · January 7, 2019

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Originally Posted by Worth1

Saw ants waving my lettuce seeds around yesterday.

Hahaha. It’s not funny but it is.

maxjohnson · January 8, 2019

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.

imp · January 8, 2019

Is that swiss chard or red veined sorrel growing, jane?

PlainJane · January 8, 2019

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Originally Posted by imp

Is that swiss chard or red veined sorrel growing, jane?

Swiss chard.

PlainJane · January 8, 2019

Your lettuce looks wonderful! Are you greenhouse-growing?

SpookyShoe · January 10, 2019

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Originally Posted by maxjohnson

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.

It's the dead of winter....by all means post!

SpookyShoe · January 25, 2019

I'm growing three containers for baby mesclun salad. How much should I thin the seedlings? This is today......

PlainJane · January 25, 2019

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.

bower · January 25, 2019

I think the density looks fine for cut-and-come-again.

SpookyShoe · January 25, 2019

Thanks for the advice Jane and Bower. I know I can always get answer on Tomatoville.

SpookyShoe · February 3, 2019

All 3 trays looking good.

DonDuck · February 3, 2019

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..

biscuitridge · February 20, 2019

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.
Never thought that it could take below 0 temperatures.

bower · February 21, 2019

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.

January 7, 2019	#256
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas. Posts: 38,220	Saw ants waving my lettuce seeds around yesterday. __________________ A Falling Knife Has No Handle Worth

January 8, 2019	#259
imp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Posts: 4,518	Is that swiss chard or red veined sorrel growing, jane? __________________ Cesar Chavez: "Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures." “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time”. Maya Angelou

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SpookyShoe Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: El Lago, Texas Posts: 1,018	Thanks for the advice Jane and Bower. I know I can always get answer on Tomatoville. __________________ Donna, Zone 9, Texas Gulf Coast

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January 8, 2019	#261
PlainJane Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: North Florida Posts: 927	Your lettuce looks wonderful! Are you greenhouse-growing?

January 25, 2019	#264
PlainJane Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: North Florida Posts: 927	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.

January 25, 2019	#265
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,593	I think the density looks fine for cut-and-come-again.

February 3, 2019	#268
DonDuck Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Corinth, texas Posts: 1,589	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..

February 20, 2019	#269
biscuitridge Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: washington Posts: 192	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. Never thought that it could take below 0 temperatures.

February 21, 2019	#270
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,593	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.