Lettuce

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Is it too late to plant lettuce? I am not getting much done this year, but at least should get some more lettuce if possible.

 

[Smart Red]

You should be able to get some lettuce out of a planting now. Especially if you can use a row cover should the weather change drastically.

 

[journey11]

Sure you can, and a row cover (I recommend 6 mil clear plastic once the temps start to drop) will keep you in lettuce for a couple of months up until the temps really drop into the freezing range.

 

[digitS']

I have planted lettuce in mid-August, before. I'm fairly sure it was about average weather for the end of the growing season.

That would mean that there was a comfortable cool down at the end of August. September weeks would alternate between cool and warm with some showers. Frost would enter the picture sometime later in the month ...

My lettuce wouldn't grow! I wasn't moving transplants into the greenhouse ahead of the frost that year. That's only been the last two years.

What do you have to lose giving lettuce a try? The weather seems quite normal now but would it surprise you if it warms up again and stays that way through September? After all the records this summer, it wouldn't surprise me. ...( I'll give it 40/60 )

Steve

 

[majorcatfish]

do not see why not ,like @journey11 suggest using thick plastic to cover them during the nights and cold weather. we had lettuce till the first of the year, not saying they were big heads...
we had a couple night below freezing looked under the plastic everything was frozen figured they were toast, came back out after it warmed up well surprize everyone looked normal....
if you wanted to try growing some indoors...

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Sounds good. Thank you.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I planted red romaine, Bibb, some spinach, arugula and mustard spinach and have it where I can cover with plastic using hoops on the box and I have 6 mil clear plastic all ready. I have the arugula in pots and could even bring inside at night if I had to.

 

[jackb]

Y"all got me thinking of lettuce, so I cranked up the lettuce machines and have Red Salad Bowl, Merlot and Green Ice underway.
jackb

 

[digitS']

Okay, I'm inspired ..

. to get some seed in some planting mix.

Despite the awareness of a longer growing season than usual, it looks like the last outdoor sowing of bok choy seed will once again yield plants too mature for greenhouse growing this fall. Eating all of them in October looks like the most likely scenario.

Starting seed in the greenhouse beds in mid-October results in a February crop. Fine, but what about all the months prior? I better get a flat of veggies started to sit in there on the bench waiting for transplant! Maybe lettuce and spinach this year ...

Steve