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"Terry Coombs" wrote:

I've always had a problem with lettuce bolting , so
this year I'll be planting it indoors and setting it out as soon as last
frost danger has passed.

Could be you set it out (or simply planted seed) too late. Lettuce can
take some frost, and the seeds for direct seeded should definitely be
out there well before last frost. Two years ago when I tried doing lots
of things in soil blocks, the lettuce stated nicely in them and
transplanted nicely with them (as expected, it's evidently a common
commercial technique) but did not maintain an advantage over
direct-seeded lettuce as the season went on.

Early lettuce also works well with some minor coverage (row cover, cold
frame or the like.) Mind you, I have no great success with the stuff (I
like head lettuce, I can't grow it for the life of me, even though
people supposedly farm the stuff more-or-less in the same climate and
I've tried selections that are supposed to work around here.)

I can get leaf lettuce somewhat, but it's never a very satisfying use of
time and garden space. Often it feels like a food patch for slugs, and
then you have incidents like the deer hoof that managed to take out half
a row of tiny lettuce just by stomping on it and I start to feel that
the stuff is cursed...

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