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I kept sowing lettuce seeds all July and watching nothing come up: the day I learned what 25°C does to them, I opened my fridge

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I kept sowing lettuce seeds all July and watching nothing come up: the day I learned what 25°C does to them, I opened my f...

Lettuce seeds don’t die in July heat—they enter a dormant state called thermoinhibition when temperatures exceed 25°C. Discover why this ancestral survival mechanism sabotages summer sowings and the surprisingly simple refrigerator method that growers use to trick seeds into sprouting on schedule.

Why Your Beer Traps Aren’t Saving Your Lettuce: What That Morning Slug Count Really Means

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Why Your Beer Traps Aren't Saving Your Lettuce: What That Morning Slug Count Really Means

For years, beer traps seemed to work—until a gardener realized dozens of dead slugs in the morning meant nothing when lettuce kept disappearing at the same rate. The problem isn’t the traps. It’s where they’re placed, which slugs they catch, and what gardeners refuse to see in the data.