{"id":5043,"date":"2012-08-10T15:51:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T21:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2012-09-03T22:18:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T04:18:03","slug":"let-us-have-lettuce-in-august-in-southwest-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/let-us-have-lettuce-in-august-in-southwest-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Have Lettuce in August in Southwest Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a few key things that must be done if a gardener in Southwest Idaho wants to be enjoying fresh garden lettuce in the middle of August.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Nevada
Nevada summer crisp lettuce succulent in scorching August.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Buy the correct variety.<\/strong> \u00a0A few years ago, I discovered summer crisp lettuce<\/a>. \u00a0The previous link is for Nevada summer crisp, the kind I have growing now; but Johhny’s Selected Seeds<\/a>\u00a0has several varieties of summer crisp available. \u00a0I grew another of them earlier, but only planted Nevada the last time around. \u00a0Both have been delicious. \u00a0The close-up photo to the immediate left was taken\u00a0this morning<\/em> around 10 AM, after several weeks of constant high temperatures. \u00a0(Just for clarification, the photo was not altered in any way.)<\/p>\n

Plant in mid to late June. \u00a0<\/strong>At this time of year, it is usually still cool enough for lettuce to germinate well. \u00a0I had plenty of lettuce in the spring and early summer from both volunteer lettuce seedlings<\/a> and succession plantings every three weeks or so. \u00a0But the plants that were already closer to maturity did tend more toward bolting when the heat hit. \u00a0Not so with this planting.<\/p>\n

Water regularly. \u00a0<\/strong>Lettuce needs water or it can become bitter. \u00a0This August lettuce has been watered about 4 times a week with overhead sprinklers, because that happens to be my set up this year. \u00a0However, it should be noted that we had pressure problems for about three weeks and didn’t know it. \u00a0Parts of the lawn went brown, but this variety of lettuce is still sweet and juicy.<\/em> \u00a0It may be close enough to a sprinkler that it didn’t suffer too much water deprivation.<\/p>\n

It is very satisfying to have lettuce in the garden at the same time that my tomatoes are finally ripening.<\/strong> \u00a0The Nevada summer crisp lettuce<\/a>\u00a0is not a light, leafy lettuce, but neither is it a tasteless, stiff ice berg lettuce. \u00a0I find it is perfect for my easy summer evening hamburgers; \u00a0it will have an important role in tacos tonight, along with the now arriving gorgeous tomatoes. \u00a0 I still have several heads of it out there!<\/p>\n

\"August<\/a>
August lettuce on hamburger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"summer<\/a>
summer crisp lettuce in the garden during the heat of August in SW Idaho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a few key things that must be done if a gardener in Southwest Idaho wants to be enjoying fresh garden lettuce in the middle of August. Buy the correct variety. \u00a0A few years ago, I discovered summer crisp lettuce. \u00a0The previous link is for Nevada summer crisp, the kind I have growing now; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}