Any one have any luck growing summer lettuce in the Mid-south? I'm trying some heat resistant varieties under an arched bean trellis:
Summer Lettuce in the Mid-south
. . . and some more under 50% shade cloth:
All I've done so far is think about it. You will have to keep us updated.
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Judy
Ditto what judy said ;o) Yours looks really healthy - please keep us posted! (I've got plans to start some in late August for fall cropping, but I've never had the gumption to actually create a trellis or shade cloth frame to try it in the summer.
What varieties are you planting?
For summer I'm trying Sierra, All Season Romaine (Cos Mix from Cooks), Black-seeded simpson, and Redsails. Also, We've been saving seeds from winter plantings so I have Oakleaf, buttercrunch, speckles, merlot, Granpa's admires, red romaine, and lot's of unknowns (Johnny's wild fire mix, Territorial Seeds mesclun, etc. but they're mostly cold hardy (survived the winter under row cover!) and some seem to bolt quick in the heat (buttercrunch). Here's a picture of the wintermix planted in spring as it started to bolt -- it has spinach & beets mixed in.
And here's the winter planting gone to seed intercroped with green onions (peppers already added as a succession planting).
