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  • From: Allan Balliett <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Dressing ideas for bitter summer lettuce(?)
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:13:03 -0400

I've got a planting of Jehrico that's been distributed to the CSA that I'm getting some bitterness complaints about.

This brings up two questions:

1. Do you have a recipe for a dressing that goes good with bitter lettuce?

2. I've had it in my head that as long as the soil is very damp, lettuce won't get bitter. I think I ran into something weird in the past couple of weeks: the soil was wet to almost capacity but it was hot enough that this soaking wet soil got hot. I was in a bind of knowing I didn't need more water and thinking that as long as the lettuce could access water, its leaves could not get too hot. It seem like I should have used a 'cooling mist,' even though the soil was plenty wet. (I hate to say it, but also HOT to the touch, at times) What do you think?

Thanks!

Allan Balliett
Extending the season right into summer
in Shepherdstown, WV




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