Market Farming

[sunnfarm AT netscape.net]

When it comes to lettuce adaptability is everything. There is a very common 
iceburg that I bet most folks on this list have grown called Fairton. Its one 
of the few head type that can grow outside of the southwest, it was developed 
to grow in my area. Last week I found a 70 acre field of Fairton lettuce, 
direct seeded mid August on three ft wide raised beds two rows to a bed, just 
a few miles south of the town of Fairton, it germinated and grew in the 100 
degree heatwave that lasted till mid September. It was fully headed and 
probably ready to pick in a week or so. The farmer tells me that the field is 
cooled by winds off the Delaware bay just a half mile away. you are either in 
a lettuce growing enviromnment or not..Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

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