Lettuce varieties!! :) - Page 3

b54red · February 22, 2011

My favorite dressing for a large salad is an Asian poppy seed dressing. Ingredients are lime juice, orange & pineapple concentrate, sugar, honey, garlic, ginger, poppy seed, mustard powder, soy sauce, black pepper, salt, a few drops of roasted sesame seed oil, a little extra virgin olive oil and canola oil. The salad is made with various lettuces, tomato, cucumber, onion, feta cheese, a little sharp Vermont cheddar, grilled chicken, Mandarin orange slices and topped with a few chow mein noodles. This makes a really nice meal and the dressing and salad ingredients can be adjusted to suit your taste.

I would eat a large salad every few days for a meal but my wife gets tired of salad before I do. I just hate to see the lettuce and spinach go to waste but every year I throw away a huge pile of lettuce because we can't eat it fast enough. One thing about lettuce is that when it is ready you don't want to leave it long in the garden or it will ruin.

emzybo · March 5, 2011

Those who have grown Jericho/Nevada lettuce... what are your experiences? How long into the season where you able to grow it before bolting? Thanks!

Mark0820 · March 6, 2011

I planted Jericho one year and it bolted rather quickly. I was disappointed because the catalog description indicated it would hold up under extreme heat.

However, I only planted it one year, so maybe it would have grown better if I would have tried it again.

b54red · March 6, 2011

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Originally Posted by emzybo

Those who have grown Jericho/Nevada lettuce... what are your experiences? How long into the season where you able to grow it before bolting? Thanks!

I have found very few varieties that won't bolt down here. Lettuce for me is a fall through mid spring crop that seldom does very well after March.

**nctomatoman** · March 6, 2011

Johnny's sells two varieties of lettuce that I think are just spectacular - Cherokee and Magenta - they combine the crispness and sweetness of cos types, but are more of a crisphead - we pick outer leaves from them all spring, and they are relatively slow bolting as well....Magenta is bright green with red shading, Cherokee is a stunning mostly deep red.

Thanks to my friend Tomaddict, I always grow 30+ types - the mix of leaf shapes and colors and growth habits is really interesting to see.

ddsack · March 6, 2011

I grow Nevada every year, have no trouble with early bolting, but our normal summer highs range between the 70's and 80's F, 90's don't last long. As long as I water frequently, Nevada does not get bitter. Along with Summertime, Nevada lettuce is my mainstay type all summer. My only problem is that I get lazy and don't get successive plantings started on a timely basis. I start most lettuce seed in flats so I can space transplants in the garden and not worry about too much heat or dry soil to sprout seeds, or run off and puddling seeds in heavy rain. I wish I could still get Sierra someplace, which was a red-tinted leaf very similar to Nevada.

Mark0820 · March 6, 2011

The romaine I have had the most success with is Plato II.

March 6, 2011	#35
nctomatoman Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hendersonville, NC zone 7 Posts: 10,385	Johnny's sells two varieties of lettuce that I think are just spectacular - Cherokee and Magenta - they combine the crispness and sweetness of cos types, but are more of a crisphead - we pick outer leaves from them all spring, and they are relatively slow bolting as well....Magenta is bright green with red shading, Cherokee is a stunning mostly deep red. Thanks to my friend Tomaddict, I always grow 30+ types - the mix of leaf shapes and colors and growth habits is really interesting to see. __________________ Craig

March 6, 2011	#36
ddsack Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Northern Minnesota - zone 3 Posts: 3,231	I grow Nevada every year, have no trouble with early bolting, but our normal summer highs range between the 70's and 80's F, 90's don't last long. As long as I water frequently, Nevada does not get bitter. Along with Summertime, Nevada lettuce is my mainstay type all summer. My only problem is that I get lazy and don't get successive plantings started on a timely basis. I start most lettuce seed in flats so I can space transplants in the garden and not worry about too much heat or dry soil to sprout seeds, or run off and puddling seeds in heavy rain. I wish I could still get Sierra someplace, which was a red-tinted leaf very similar to Nevada. __________________ Dee **************

February 22, 2011	#31
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	My favorite dressing for a large salad is an Asian poppy seed dressing. Ingredients are lime juice, orange & pineapple concentrate, sugar, honey, garlic, ginger, poppy seed, mustard powder, soy sauce, black pepper, salt, a few drops of roasted sesame seed oil, a little extra virgin olive oil and canola oil. The salad is made with various lettuces, tomato, cucumber, onion, feta cheese, a little sharp Vermont cheddar, grilled chicken, Mandarin orange slices and topped with a few chow mein noodles. This makes a really nice meal and the dressing and salad ingredients can be adjusted to suit your taste. I would eat a large salad every few days for a meal but my wife gets tired of salad before I do. I just hate to see the lettuce and spinach go to waste but every year I throw away a huge pile of lettuce because we can't eat it fast enough. One thing about lettuce is that when it is ready you don't want to leave it long in the garden or it will ruin.

March 5, 2011	#32
emzybo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NE Alabama Posts: 28	Those who have grown Jericho/Nevada lettuce... what are your experiences? How long into the season where you able to grow it before bolting? Thanks!

March 6, 2011	#33
Mark0820 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Cincinnati Posts: 907	I planted Jericho one year and it bolted rather quickly. I was disappointed because the catalog description indicated it would hold up under extreme heat. However, I only planted it one year, so maybe it would have grown better if I would have tried it again.