This year , one of the simoleons I arise is called Santoro , a case of butterhead dough that is heat - resistant , cold resistant , has a wonderful taste and grows really gravid if give the probability . I take the seeds from Cooks Garden ejaculate catalogue . I start out them inside the house on Jan 29 , transplanted them into 2″ pots on Feb 14 and transplanted them again into the nursery in mid April . I read somewhere Santoro lettuce can bring on 12″ header if you give them the room . So I space them really far aside to see if they could get that heavy . They say if you crowd big diverseness they will never attain their maximal sizing . In the picture above I ’ve pick the outer leafage to eat and desire to see if they would grow back . The heads on the right have n’t been touched yet . As you could see I picked pretty severely . They grew back almost to the same size of it as the ones that were n’t pick .
A couple of weeks later - check into out the size of these heads - a full 12 inches across . They are still produce in the greenhouse but now I ’m find fault the whole head ( instead of just the outer leaves ) as I had to make way for the tomatoes that will grow in there . In fact I already have all 18 tomato works ( in rampart of water system ) inside the greenhouse as of May 13 . I know it will get too hot for lettuces inside the greenhouse this summertime so I ’m starting to pull them to exhaust .
May 31 - I just picked this last promontory of Santoro lettuce yesterday ( point above between the tomatoes in the wall of waters ) and it had n’t bolted yet even though the temperatures in the glasshouse have gotten over 80 degrees . It ’s handle 19 degree to over 80 degrees ! It reached 17 inches across ! Has n’t gotten acrid and is still soft and wonderful to eat . I ’ve never had such dandy pelf as this year , not only with this bread but with all of them in the nursery . Seems I ’ve calculate out how to be successful with them . I ’ve done a flock of inquiry on them from Nov - Dec to find some great mixed bag that were cold liberal and now I ’ve researched out what multifariousness of lettuce are heat tolerant , trust to spring up them in the refinement this summer here in Santa Fe without bolting . Most of us do n’t even attempt to grow lettuce in the summer as it is passably lovesome here . I will number the heat tolerant varieties of lettuce in the next Charles William Post and do an experiment with some of them outside in the garden .
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