LOL. Always a pleasure to read your posts Marcella. You could buy a row cover, and go ahead and plant the lettuce seeds. They are a cool weather crop. Some are more tolerant of cold than others.
This time of year and your location, you should be able to get lettuce going with out fear of frost, as long as you can remember to cover them up when the weather reaches a freezing temperature.
Even an old sheet or some plastic might work. Some time I even us and old blanket in the middle of winter.
Tomatoes - really have NO Tolerance for cold weather 40 degrees doesn’t kill them, but it really puts the kabash on their development. They are like me - like warm weather.LOL.
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