lamb’s lettuce

I sowed my lamb’s lettuce in mid-August just to be ahead for autumn: three weeks later, with not one seedling up, I understood what the soil had been doing to the seed

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I sowed my lamb's lettuce in mid-August just to be ahead for autumn: three weeks later, with not one seedling up, I unders...

You sowed lamb’s lettuce in mid-August expecting fall salads, but three weeks later, not a single seedling emerged. The problem isn’t your technique—it’s thermodormancy, the seed’s biological refusal to germinate in warm soil. Learn the hidden soil physics that sabotaged your sowing and the simple fixes that work.