On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:55:01 -0000, you wrote:
>
>I've got a 4 by 4 foot container of garlic planed for next year. If
>I pull these up at midsummer would i be able to get a lettuce crop
>in straight after?
>
Probably not IMMEDIATELY after. Lettuce dislikes heat, dislikes hot
weather. It's a cool-weather crop. It would probably be better to wait
until late summer to plant the lettuce.
But it depends on your circumstances: for example, I can grow lettuce
straight through the summer here. We're in the mountains in northern
Pennsylvania and it isn't nearly as hot here in summer as in most of the
country. I can also provide some shade for my lettuce on hot afternoons.
Our average summer highs are probably around 80F, and it gets very cool at
night, even in July and August here; generally *at least* down into the 50s
and often into the 40s, sometimes even the low 40s.
But - say - you're somewhere around Philadelphia (southern Pennsylvania,
flat, hot, humid); then you're not going to be able to grow lettuce
successfully in mid-summer.
How about green beans right after the garlic? Some of them will be
finished in 55 or so days. That would take you up to the end of August,
probably. THEN you could plant lettuce and it would grow happily.
It would be good to start the lettuce seeds in cell-packs or something, and
let them sprout and grow a little bit there, then transplant them into the
container. That way, as soon as the beans are finished, you can have
lettuce plants all ready to put into the container.
Pat
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