Hot Weather Lettuce (PIX)

[rebbetzin]

I think I have found a type of lettuce that will grow and not bolt when the temps reach the 90's ane 100's!

In the early spring I threw some lettuce seeds I had gathered a couple of years ago. They were hanging in a grocery bag in the storage/laundry room. I wasn't sure they were any good, so I just threw them out there, and if they grew they grew, and if they didn't no big deal.

Well, I think the seeds pretty much all gerninated! I have lettuce all over the place in my front garden beds! And it is still producing nice sweet lettuce! And we have hit 100 in the past couple of weeks! I hope to get some seed from these plants.


They are a deeply lobed leaf lettuce, I don't know the name of it. But it is growing very nicely!

 

[EweSheep]

Cool! I will have to do the same thing for my lettuce seeds!

 

[dewey]

Very nice! It looks like an oak leaf variety. Some of those varieties are more heat tolerant.

 

[NYboy]

What are the blue flowers? Are they really that color?

 

[kmatt87]

What are the blue flowers? Are they really that color?

the blue flowers look like lobela to me

 

[cva34]

Very nice! It looks like an oak leaf variety. Some of those varieties are more heat tolerant.

X-2 cva34

 

[flgardengirl]

I have some of that in my garden that is still going strong. So is the Lolla Rossa (red Italian looseleaf type).