I'm about to punish those plus several other varieties and see who can handle the heat. I'm bound and determined to have some kind of lettuce with a little crunch to it, plus nutritious leafy greens, at the same time I have ripe maters. I doubt the tennis ball will form a head in hot weather and might not grow much at all or will bolt quick so I'll only plant a few seeds of that.
Rainy season seems to be ending or has ended. I reset my rain gauge to zero and will water on a schedule and watch the rain gauge.
There's no simple way to automate irrigation based on rain amount and altering the schedule. The standard is 1 inch of rain a week. What is a week? Sun-Sat or a rolling 7 day period. I can auto-reset the rain gauge at 1 inch. I can water on a time schedule that's based on a calendar. Then there's variables like temperature, cloud cover that effect soil drying through evaporation.
I think it's time to buy a soil moisture sensor. Dead drop simple. Is it dry? Water it.
“I’m bound and determined to have some kind of lettuce with a little crunch to it, plus nutritious leafy greens, at the same time I have ripe maters.”
Of all the lettuce varieties out there, and they are legion, boring old Romaine has the highest nutritional value. And even then, that’s not much!
Favorite lettuce of starving Supermodels, the world over. ;)
After decades of trying different leaf lettuce, Little Gem has done the best. Slow to bolt, crunchy, delicious, and really green. It beats Paris Cos. We also like the Yugoslavian red butter lettuce. We have grown it three years now and it does well.