"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
- B.C. Forbes
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| Buttercrunch Lettuce - Spring 2023 |
Plants are alive - they communicate, they scream, the leaves get droopy / curled when they haven't had enough water, and the plants get upset if they get too much water. It's quite clear, plants are alive even if they don't have what we consider to be a normal brain.
Just like other beings that are alive, each type of plant has preferences and certain conditions that they like. Spring greens are where this is the most noticeable.
Spring greens like cool weather but they don't like freezing temps nor do they like it when it gets too hot (think 85+ F or 29+ C). They have very specific conditions they need to thrive.
Greens that fall into this category are your arugulas, lettuce, radishes, spinach, etc. To get the best tasting greens, they require cool weather. Once it gets too hot out and past their comfort zone they start bolting to produce seed and the whole plant gets a hell of a lot more bitter the hotter the temperatures get.
