justplainbill
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I started some Corn Salad / lambs lettuce / feldsalat and some Greek oregano in my cold bedroom (50* F) today. Anyone have any tips / luck with growing these plants?
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Are you really zone 7-10? Montreal is zone 5, but maybe we aren't using the same zone system.I started some Corn Salad / lambs lettuce / feldsalat and some Greek oregano in my cold bedroom (50* F) today. Anyone have any tips / luck with growing these plants?
You're right as usual, Linda. I should have said zones 5 - 7. I'm short in the sunshine and long in the whitetail deer department. Being surrounded by water our microclimate is slow to warm in spring and late to cool in fall.Are you really zone 7-10? Montreal is zone 5, but maybe we aren't using the same zone system.
I would love to hear your experience with those. I grew Greek oregano last year. I bought it in a small pot and re-potted it into a larger pot in spring and just grew it outside in plenty of sunshine. It grew fine.
Thank you for the suggestion of lambs lettuce. That's the kind of stuff I should be ordering seeds for - stuff I can't find at the store.
Seeds or seedlings? When I grew all my seeds in the basement under lights, I used heating cable taped to the bottom of the flats. Most (not all) seeds like to be warm in order to germinate. I haven't grown either of these.
My oregano survives our nasty winters outside just fine here.
Seeds.
Where is here?
I actually think 50°F is fine. We plant lettuce in the fall and early spring here. They often overwinter, when it's mild, which is temps in the 40s.
I'm getting the itch, too! This time last year, we were planting beans and peas, but it's way too cold - 37°F today.
I have a 12 foot high snowbank sitting on top of my blueberries, courtesy of the county road commision, and snow in my yard that's 3 foot deep. Temps were in the 20's here today, and yesterday. But the last few nights have been single digit temps, and below 0 F. temps last week. It'll be a month more before we can even consider planting anything in the ground, and whatever is planted needs to be able to survive a frost.
Even with that, I'm starting to get the itch as well. I have seeds sprouting in the house, so that they'll be ready to transplant when the time is right.
I believe that I'm in zone 7 too.
Seeeeeeya; Chief Longwind fo the North
I think you're in Zone 4, Chief USDA Hardiness Zone Finder