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Sorry to hear of poor growth so far but you have experienced two hugely different autumns and your first one last year was exceptionally mild and untypical. This year was on the cool side, until recently but this is exceptionally warm again, for the time of year, and as you say it looks like turning colder by month’s end.
I am cautious of seed packets’ advice, yes you can sow at those dates for sure, but will results be worth using precious space for? I think the first three lettuce are soft-leaved roundheads, not easy for leaf picking, Maravilla is better and worth trying esp in your warm kitchen. Then once going, lettuce plants can stand cold weather when protected from wind, rain etc, so good luck and Happy New Year too!
hi kate, i don’t have any experience yet to offer re lettuces, but i noticed you sow your leaves on the descending moon leaf days. i am trying to get my head round asc/desc moon phases this year (last year i only paid attention to whether it was a leaf/fruit etc day).
my understanding so far was that the desc moon is important for transplanting, but not important for sowing. i even read somewhere that the asc moon is good for sowing as the ‘forces’ are drawn ‘up’. i know there’s no right or wrong to this really, so i’m interested in why you like to sow on those days and have you noticed it working well? i’m hoping to find time to do some experiments myself.
Yes it can become complicated! For which reason I do not consider, when sowing seeds, whether moon is ascending or descending, just its constellation: so leaf days for lettuce (incidentally my moon calendar gives 16th-18th for leaf vegetables and you left out these dates, hence Ashleigh’s question), also I find more vigour (mostly not always) from sowing in waxing moon….
It is good to plant on descending moon (not the same as waning).
But I plant when my plants are ready!
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