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Gardening

Curmudgeoness

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6. I have not grown butter lettuce, so don't know.

Reply to Aerows (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 23, 2014, 07:50 PM

Mar 2014

Experiment. That is always a good idea, since what works for one person may not work for another as well. Find out what works for you.

I grow my leaf lettuce in window boxes, and it doesn't do too bad but would probably do better in a larger container. Growing it in the ground is not an option for me here because of the rabbits.

But I do have experience with lettuce in Houston, and I guarantee you that it will be bitter by early summer.

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I got some of the peat cups and started my plants! [View all] Aerows Mar 2014 OP

You won't mother hen them to death. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #1

I haven't put the lettuce out yet Aerows Mar 2014 #2

Lettuce will do fine with those temps. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #3

Oh! I thought it needed to be warmer Aerows Mar 2014 #4

I read online that butter lettuce might just do better in buckets Aerows Mar 2014 #5

I have not grown butter lettuce, so don't know. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #6

See, I'm in a climate that is about like Houston, but more humid Aerows Mar 2014 #7

But more humid?????? Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #8

I'm already growing alfalfa sprouts inside Aerows Mar 2014 #9

I'm so thrilled I could just about burst Aerows Apr 2014 #10