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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:18:54 -0500 (CDT)

Does anyone use shadecloth or misting to prevent bolting and gain more
maturity in summer lettuce?

Bill

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:49:37 -0400
>From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
>Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces
>To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>
>> 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.
>
>
>Yeah, I agree here. Do not forget water. Water defeats heat in terms of
>changing the flavor.
>
>What we do is is micro to medium in terms of harvest, never letting the
>lettuce mature...earlier depending on the variety. I think its also to key
>to find other greens to supplement or beef up the texture, color, and
>flavor. Call it seasonal...as other varieties do better. Forego lettuce
>all together and work a swiss chard, mizuna, micro radish, arugula, micro
>Kohlrabi, and micro beet green. Then you bulk up with one or two varieties
>of lettuce (we use deer tongue and shanghai red oakleaf which seems to do
>well season and do transplants). Right now we also have a nice buttercrunch
>variety that is doing very well.
>
>Richard Stewart
>Carriage House Farm
>North Bend, Ohio
>
>An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855
>
>(513) 967-1106
>http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com
>rstewart AT zoomtown.com
>
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