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Gardening

Curmudgeoness

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1. You won't mother hen them to death.

Reply to Aerows (Original post)

Sun Mar 23, 2014, 08:19 PM

Mar 2014

Don't overwater them, and make sure that they have air circulation when they get to about an inch high----that is where I used to kill them with too much water and they would die right at the soil line. Live and learn.

You are lucky to be able to put out lettuce already.....they are calling for snow tomorrow night here. Ugh. This has been a very long winter.

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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