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- From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 12:29:28 -0400
On Tue, 26 May 2009 09:00:45 -0400, you wrote:
>I've grown lettuce all summer for years- taking lettuce to market from May
>thru Oct. I'm in Zone 7a in east Tennessee. I do it without shade cloth- I
>found this just makes plants "leggy" and taking it off and putting it back
>on the beds every day was time consuming.
>
>The main secret is a variety that is not day-length sensitive. Try the
>"Crisp heads. The first one I tried was Nevada from Cook's Garden- this was
>before the large seed cos. started carrying them. I found Nevada to be the
>best for summer growing. Most seed cos. carry this now- I know Johnny's does.
>
I didn't know about the crisp heads until this year when I noticed them in
the Johnny's catalog. They have some red varieties too, and a few other
greens.
The catalog is on my desk at the moment; I want to order some seeds for
summer and fall soon. I'll give Nevada a try.
Johnny's calls them 'summer crisp' lettuce and says that they are also
called 'Batavian' or 'French crisp,' by the way. So this is interesting.
Pat
-- North-Central Pennsylvania, USA
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-
[Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question,
mcoldiron, 05/25/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question, Sue Wells, 05/25/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question,
Pat Meadows, 05/25/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question,
Road's End Farm, 05/25/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question, Danielle Conger, 05/26/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question,
Road's End Farm, 05/25/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question,
waldenfarm, 05/26/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question,
Pat Meadows, 05/26/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question, Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland, 05/26/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question, waldenfarm, 05/26/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Growing Lettuce Question,
Pat Meadows, 05/26/2009
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