Re: lettuce

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• Subject: Re: lettuce
• From: M* R* <B*@AOL.COM>
• Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 01:15:35 -0400

In a message dated 97-08-04 14:42:04 EDT, you write:

<<
 Janet,

 This does work. But just so you know my husband did this last year and every
 crop keeps getting  tougher and tougher. Depends what you want.  Donna

 >I don't know about earwigs, but I did make an interesting discovery when
 >yanking my own lettuce plants (including some BC) last month.  The bigger
 >plants wouldn't give up the soil, so my spouse, who was pulling them out
for
 >me, just snapped a half-dozen or so especially thick plants at ground
level.
 >
 >Almost all these have put out new leaves and are growing fine again!
 >
 >Perhaps it is not necessary to begin again from seed for a fall crop of
 >lettuce.. >>
  We got a nice surprise this spring when we found that the lettuce had
seeded itself over from the fall...and it's STILL going strong, despite the
heat and drought!!!!
  Margaret Zone 7/MD-DC area

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