Cool Weather Lettuce for Fall and Winter Gardens

Any gardeners out there planning on having some home-grown lettuce on the Christmas dinner table? What varieties are you planting and where the heck are you?

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Did you get your lettuce in yet ? I imbed a “ butterhead mix ” from The Cooks Garden which consist of Arctic King , Buttercrunch , Matchless , North Pole , and Burpee ’s Bibb in our frigid frame . We ’re sign with balmy winters , so it ’s quite possible for us to have lettuce all winter .

But do n’t rent cold winter temperatures deter you from planting some of the cool conditions lettuces . They ’re deserving trying in yourcold frame , basket house , drift row screen , or greenhouse . There ’s plentifulness of lettuces that thrive in crisp weather . To choose the veracious varieties for your area , give your local cooperative extension office a call .

I ’m especially look forrard to savour Arctic King because I ’ve never seen it before lease alone grown it . It ’s spawn specifically for planting in autumn and growing through the frigid months – it does n’t do well in the heat . So , October is my opportunity to give that one a go .

Burpee ’s Bibb is a gourmet heirloom lettuce that ’s deadening to bolt ( what ’s not to bonk ? ) . It make crank heads with a unfermented , delicate flavor . Bibb is a must for me . Buttercrunch is a gourmet lettuce with a firm head word and crunchy texture . It ’s also a major leaf producer . While both Bibb and Buttercrunch are cross - over into the warmer conditions , buttercrunch tolerates the heat better than Bibb .

North Pole is a unaccented - green cold-blooded weather trooper and begrudge hot atmospheric condition . This is certainly a good wintertime variety to try if you ’re gardening in a crack cold zone . Matchless is also known as Deertongue and has some really cool - looking leaf that resemble … well … deer tongue . It has a pantry texture and is slow to bolt even in warm conditions . I ’m not trusted how well it ’ll execute through wintertime in the San Francisco Bay Area , but I ’m go bad to find out .

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