Pretty soon it will be too warm for romaine. I'll be harvesting some of these today, probably full harvest on the red romaine and snipping the outer leaves on the green romaine. It's about 70-80 degrees here in the Triad NC depending on the day, with 60 degree nights. These guys get about 4-6 hrs a day of sun. The red romaine is struggling in the heat because naturally it gets affected more by the sun. Will probably replace with some Red Sails lettuce I started.
For anyone wondering, the owl keeps the crows away and it actually slips drips water (unintentionally) into the bed because you fill it with water to keep it from falling over. His name is Richard. Thankfully I haven't had to use any pest control yet other than that because these are fresh raised beds. Each of my lettuce beds also have herbs so maybe that's related too.
by Smellieturtlegarden
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LOL, the owl probably helps to keep pesky birds like pigeons away from your greens..
This is beautiful! How do you use all of it?
Lettuce gaze upon this glory together
Looks like it’s a hoot!
I’m new here so forgive me if it’s an obvious question but do you trim the leaves for consumption or some other process to keep the plant growing?
Amazing! Love it
Those raised beds are enormous
Wow they look so fresh and healthy. Great job
Gorgeous lettuce! I am in 8b and eating as much fresh romaine as I can before it gets hot and everything bolts.
This looks like a video game. The lettuce is so perfect. When I’ve tried growing lettuce (or cabbages), they always get eaten by worms or grubs or whatever.
How do you avoid this? Do you use any product(s) to keep them from being bug food?