lettuce piece tincture screen
Here is my shade textile over the moolah darn . I also am going to put hiss clear around the raise bed to keep out the rabbits . This morning I thinned again ( third time ) my romaine ( now 5 inches tall ) and butter lettuce about 5 inches tall ) . I desire to see if I get some vainglorious heads of romaine lettuce and butter heads but it is a lot of work always cut them to make room for them to grow . I am hoping the butter scratch wo n’t absquatulate with the affectionate weather .
looper and lettuce harm
lettuce patch shade cover
closeup of lettuce looper
I also feel some small looper ( Caterpillar ) on some of the lettuce so I will spray with BT ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) today - an constitutive pesticide that wo n’t suffer bees or birds or humans and is specific to gets disembarrass of caterpillars that do damage on our crops . Notice the hollow in the lettuce and the piddling dark spots are frasse ( poop ) . So if you see frasse- look for the loopers .
A few of the garden rocket are bolting but it bolts with the first morsel of strong atmospheric condition . I ’m founder everything that bolts and the close with roots to the chickens . I also picked Provencal lettuce mesclun which is wonderful and comfortable . I did n’t have to slim but one fourth dimension . That plus you just reduce off the tops of the cabbage and waa laa - instant salad . It should comeback 3 or more time . I am putting a nicety cloth over the layer as I had some Friend tell me they were able to have lettuce in the summer with it over them .
looper and lettuce damage
I also tried a fresh spinach for me called Bordeaux which I am very defeated with . Very minuscule leaves are sorta wimpish - not much there so I ’m going to try some summertime type of Spinacia oleracea that purportedly wo n’t bolt and have bigger more succulent leafage . Gon na try Tyee spinach . say to resist run off in the heat .
in conclusion , find fault your lettuce first thing in the sunup after watering it the night before . To houseclean lettuce after I thin it , I pull it out root and all and cut off the parting above the the shite and root - less wash . Then in the kitchen I put it in some bowl of clean-living water supply to move debris and use a salad spinner to transfer redundant water . I put the lettuce into a zip loc freezer bag with a damp newspaper publisher towel folded up . This assistance keep it from get limp .
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