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Is it worth planting a lettuce root from the grocery store?![]() ![]() I planted that lettuce under a quick hoop in the middle of February...and it sat there for weeks doing nothing at all. The photo at the top of this post shows the plant's current state nearly two months later. It's finally almost large enough to pick a few leaves from...although, for the sake of comparison, leaf lettuce direct-seeded on the same date is nearly as big: ![]() What's with that lettuce
root growing so slowly? I suspect that February lettuce from Krogers is
hydroponic produce grown at the perfect temperature and nutrient
levels. In the wild weather of an Ohio garden, hot-house varieties are
going to lose the sprint to harvest to my hardy Black-seeded Simpson
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