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Originally Posted by Jonathan[_3_]
On Jun 6, 9:58*pm, Roger Tonkin wrote:
I plant winter lettuce. It is very cold here, and they dont grow very
quickly, but come early spring I move some outside and they seem to take
off ok.
700 ft up in Mid-Wales
You don't need a greenhouse for that. I sow lettuce in September and
leave it planted outside and they fatten up in early spring - some of
mine are bolting now.
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Depends where you are. 400ft up in Yorkshire I can get very little to survive over winter because of the combination of cold and wet, and Roger is 700ft above sea level in mid-Wales.
In the greenhouse you can grow a variety of "winter" salads - choose the ones that say that they are designed for winter use. They grow very much more slowly than in summer, of course, so you have to have a lot of them on the go for any continuity of cropping.
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