Seed Starting Secrets

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March/April 1986
 
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Lettuce seed germinates best at between 70 to 75°F and thereafter prefers to be kept at 60 to 65°. This is easy enough to accomplish in spring, but at the end of July — as you are starting your fall salad crop — a day in the refrigerator my help to remind the seed of cool weather to come and cause it to germinate a bit more reliably. Exposure to light for a day can also help. Shade and continuous moisture are the two conditions that your growing salad greens would ask for if only they could.

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