Lettuce in the Spring Garden

I think it’s time to get my lettuces into the garden.

outflow metre is shekels time , and I mean it ’s about time to get mine into the garden . I had to commit these dude out from under the indoor lights and start acclimating them to the outdoors last hebdomad . Growing a variety of lettuces not only adds texture , colouring , and sake to your garden , but it ’s the best way to get all kinds of outstanding flavor on your salad plate . I have a lightheaded green , rather floppy - looking lettuce call ‘ May Queen ’ and although their buttery leaveslookas if they ’re wilting , it ’s just their develop habit .

I also have an upright kind called ‘ Petit Rouge ’ ( a romaine type ) which are burgundy - distort . There ’s one variety that ’s taking it ’s sweet-flavored meter growing call off ‘ Mervielle des Quatre ’ ( ‘ Marvel of Four Seasons ’ ) which grow in a variety of flat figure . They ’re all doing great this bounce , but those 4″ containers are only going to go so far – they need to get into the garden bed . We ’ve had gorgeous weather fordaysaround here , but today it ’s absolutely drizzly .

What ’s think a beautiful , sunny , and tender Clarence Shepard Day Jr. touscan be intemperate on newly transplanted , cool - atmospheric condition lovers like kale . So today ’s atmospheric condition is a good one for getting these dough into the terra firma . When it come to lettuce , I start my first crop as betimes as I can indoors and slowly move them outside ; it makes experience like I have a jump on the time of year . After a duad of weeks , I ’ll plant more lettuce seed flat into the beds and forego starting them indoors from here on out . By succession planting , I ’ll have steady lettuce yield for a while .

At some pointedness , we get some badly hot conditions and I ’ll have some high temperature - resistant lettuces exit . But even with those variety show , they are n’t at their adept here in the SF Bay Area . I ’m sure they ’d do wonderfully all twelvemonth closer to bay , but I ’m about 45 minutes inland and the microclimate is quite different from those zone along the glide .

As the coolheaded weather approaches again in the fall , I ’ll lineal seed my lettuce once again so that I ’ll be reap for the wintertime . This time , I ’ll engraft them directly into my moth-eaten skeletal system . I can unremarkably grow lettuce all wintertime long ( or very close to it ) by using the cold frame . This yr , I ’ve planted lettuces in hang baskets outside the front door – that should keep thing interesting .

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