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Gardening

Aerows

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2. I haven't put the lettuce out yet

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 23, 2014, 08:22 PM

Mar 2014

It's still too iffy. I had to take the whole box inside because the temperature fluctuations are so strange. It's 75 one day, then the next it's 55 and plummeting (like tonight). I'm on the Gulf Coast. You aren't the only person that is puzzled and flummoxed by this weather.

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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