Lettuce, Batavia Lettuce 'Anuenue'

Hello; I just joined the forum - mainly because I wanted to comment about Anuenue.

I brought this lettuce with me with I m...Read Moreoved back to the mainland from Hawaii and settled in central Oregon (climate zone 8b). Although it was already September, I wanted to get started gardening, so I planted some of my seeds.

They came right up, started producing lettuce in October, and kept producing it right through January, when I ate the last of it. It got down to 25 degrees or maybe less, but the lettuce wasn't fazed. No tent or anything, either; it just stayed green and kept growing.

Now I've replanted it in the heat of summer, and although the temperature is running up into the low nineties, it's producing now as well. Other than not watering it, I'm not sure how you'd kill it. Perfectly good lettuce, too.

I'm still harvesting lettuce as of August 18 from a June sowing of this plant, despite the unusually hot summer this year! Summer lettuce...Read More of course cannot compare to spring or fall lettuce, but the fact that I'm harvesting anything crisp and green when it's 98 degrees outside is amazing. Bolt resistant is the understatement of the year for this guy.

A 1987 introduction from the University of Hawaii.