RE: Forcing Lettuce in the Winter
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- Subject: RE: Forcing Lettuce in the Winter
- From: p*
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:25:27 -0500
- Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:08:15 -0800
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I have had very good results with the Cook's Garden "winter mix" lettuce --
tender and sweet.On really bitter cold nights I have put out a floating row
cover. It was growing outside, albeit slowly, until the day before
yesterday when about a foot of snow finally covered it. Hopefully by next
winter we will have the cold frame we keep talking about ....
Pat
Zone 7, Delmarva
At 08:20 AM 1/24/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>My 0.5 cents worth:
> I have grown lettuce in the basement under lights. It grew best at cool
>(60's F)temps. Any warmer and it got long and leggy. Very little
>fertilizer- You aren't going to grow a head of lettuce. I've planted the
>seeds thickly and just snipped off an area for eating. My basement is too
>warm during the winter to get a good crop. I'm going to build a cold frame
>and buy some hardy lettuce seeds for overwintering. Cooks Gardens has
>"winter lettuce". ...
