Today after a long day in the organic garden I found some time to look at the lettuce I planted with another volunteer early August and make me some pictures. I will also explain that planting lettuce early August is not the same as in earlier months. Planning is key here.

So let us first look at some of the varieties we have ready.

green oakleaf lettuce

normal oakleaf lettuce

ordinary or butter lettuce

What are the differences and what about planning?

First of all it takes some 7 weeks to fully grow and we plant lettuce every few weeks. However starting early August you must plant varieties that can already handle cold and rain of September nights. Perfect for this is green oak leaf lettuce. They thrive despite some cold and rain. We plant them a little higher as well so excessive rain poors aside.

But clients want to have some choice so we also plant normal oak leaf and the vulnerable green butter lettuce and some of the harder varieties. These we plant as high as we can so you end up seeing a little hill of 1 cm. This year we lost some green lettuce due to rain in August. The heart then becomes brown. But the rows I show here had no issues at all. It is again sunny, warm and it rains regularly now so another great harvest!

Hope this helps although your climate can be very dfferent of course than where I live in Holland.

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