Holding onto Lettuce in Hot Weather

By Sue Lyn, on May 30th, 2006%

After a remarkably cool May, Memorial Day brought the first real hot weather our way. Saturday’s high was in the low 80s, Sunday it got up into the upper 80s, and Memorial Day the high temperature was over 90! That’s good weather for planting hot-weather garden denizens like tomatoes, eggplants, string beans and squash. Those vegetables like it when the soil is nice and warm and nights don’t get too cool. Unfortunately, high temps like that are bad weather for my lettuces and peas. . . . → Read More: Holding onto Lettuce in Hot Weather

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