Sowing many types of lettuce is essential for me in the vegetable garden. When all other vegetables give up when summer or winter arrives, I continue to eat lettuce. Carrots and radishes can also be grown all year round, but with lettuce it goes very quickly. Lettuce comes in many shapes and colours and does not like heat. At high temperatures, lettuce shows its displeasure by bolting. That is as much as saying 'I'm gone, go ahead and see what happens'. So find a spot in the vegetable garden for your summer crop that is partly in the shade.
In summer, it is best to grow lettuce in the shade
Sowing lettuce all year round
How can I grow different types of lettuce all year round? I will go through it for you per period.
- November to March in the greenhouse or conservatory: lettuce, mustard lettuce, lamb's lettuce and winter purslane that I sowed in September (lettuce can withstand temperatures down to -5° C in the greenhouse, it may be even colder under fleece.
- April and May: in the greenhouse or conservatory: lettuce Meikonigin pre-sown in propagator indoors mid-January .
- June to October: in open ground: sometimes I buy plants that I plant out in partial shade, you can also sow the Appia variety broadcast in mid-April and late August in open ground and prick out the small plants at the correct planting distance when there are two real leaves.
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