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- From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:51:33 -0400
On Jun 13, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Richard Robinson wrote:
Can anyone recommend any other summer lettuce varieties that do well in hot and humid
weather?
I agree with Anuenue; also recommend Cherokee and Simpson Elite. Parris Island Cos does as well here as Jericho, though not as well as those first three. Pirat will work if harvested young.
Part of the trick to summer lettuce in general is to harvest it young. I start lettuce as transplants and do 9 or 10 plantings a year, two to three weeks apart; and use shadecloth.
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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[Market-farming] Buckwheat
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[Market-farming] Buckwheat,
Richard Stewart, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, grizzdover, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, Richard Stewart, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, MAsteveINE, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, Richard Stewart, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, MAsteveINE, 06/13/2011
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[Market-farming] Buckwheat,
Richard Stewart, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, Robin Follette, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces (was What will you be planting this month?), Wiediger, Alison, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces (was What will you be planting this month?), Roots Farm, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces, Road's End Farm, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces, Richard Stewart, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces, Bill Shoemaker, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces, Road's End Farm, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces, Richard Robinson, 06/13/2011
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