Today after a long day in the organic garden I found some time to look at the lettuce I planted with another volunteer early August and make me some pictures. I will also explain that planting lettuce early August is not the same as in earlier months. Planning is key here.
So let us first look at some of the varieties we have ready.
green oakleaf lettuce
normal oakleaf lettuce
ordinary or butter lettuce
What are the differences and what about planning?
First of all it takes some 7 weeks to fully grow and we plant lettuce every few weeks. However starting early August you must plant varieties that can already handle cold and rain of September nights. Perfect for this is green oak leaf lettuce. They thrive despite some cold and rain. We plant them a little higher as well so excessive rain poors aside.
But clients want to have some choice so we also plant normal oak leaf and the vulnerable green butter lettuce and some of the harder varieties. These we plant as high as we can so you end up seeing a little hill of 1 cm. This year we lost some green lettuce due to rain in August. The heart then becomes brown. But the rows I show here had no issues at all. It is again sunny, warm and it rains regularly now so another great harvest!
Hope this helps although your climate can be very dfferent of course than where I live in Holland.
bye
Goldrooster
This one I ate myself (don't tell anyone)
I suppose that would take some planning, I don't know how your fall temperatures are but where I live, we already have snow. It put a damper on the harvest. I would have eaten that raspberry too!
In October we have our first frost at night. Snow is rare and requires eastern wind (western winds are normal and come form the warmer sea)
Hang on there!
You are lucky, You would have a pretty long harvest season then !! our winters start in summer, they end earlier tho, it's not uncommon to hit summer temperatures in march and have all of the snow melt in a week .Sometimes I forget the winds from the ocean do help in keeping things warmer for winter. In Alberta we are landlocked get our winds from the north ( Polar vortex....brrr). It has officially snowed somewhere in Alberta every month of the year.
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Great post!
Thanks for tasting the eden!
Those plants look very healthy, so how do you keep the bug off organic plants? cheers.