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- "Jericho (Johnny’s). 28 days baby, 57 days full size; excellent taste, Tall, heavy heads are bright light green
with excellent eating quality. Our best-tasting romaine. Heads somewhat more closed than Kalura, which it
replaced. Organically grown. Heat and tipburn tolerance" - University of Hawaii at Manoa Romaine Lettuce Variety
Trials, 2009, Full Report
- "Heat and tipburn tolerance with excellent taste. Tall, heavy heads are bright light green with excellent eating quality. Our best-tasting romaine." - Johnny’s Selected Seeds
- "This extremely bolt-resistant variety stays sweet and crisp even in hot weather. A robust, medium-green, very large, dense head. Romaines are a cut-and-come-again lettuce." - Peaceful Valley Farm Supply, Inc.
- "Summer romaine, with excellent heat and drought resistance. Produces a romaine head with a creamy texture and sweet flavor all season long. Hands-down winner of our taste trials every year. Disease resistances: Tip Burn, Heat Stress, Lettuce Mosaic Virus Tested (MTO-10)" - High Mowing Organic Seeds.
- "Bred for the hot desert of Israel, this robust, bolt-resistant variety stays sweet and crisp in hot weather. Holds up the best in summer heat of all varieties trialed in New Mexico research farm."- Seeds Of Change
- "Bred in Israel’s searing heat, this sturdy romaine is a bit forgiving of occasional lapses in watering or of heat spikes, still retaining its crisp, yet juicy texture and exceptional sweetness. Jericho is an open-pollinated variety, reliably producing gigantic heads of strong, sword-shaped upright leaves." - Kitchen Garden Seeds, LLC
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- "We have tried every lettuce we have seen that ‘tolerates’ hot weather - including Sierra, Nevada and other summer crisps. They do not work here in Kentucky. They get "blue looking" and bitter before they get large enough to sell - even under shade. Last year, we trialed a lettuce we learned about from a man who works for the Kerr Center, David Redhage. Its name is Jericho. It was developed in Israel for irrigated production in their desert. It is terrific. We grew it along with several other lettuces, summer crisps and bibbs to have a comparison. There was no comparison. Jericho grew large, crisp and sweet - regardless of temperatures and we turned the others under. Our customers LOVED it!" - The Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
- "Jericho Lettuce (60 days) . . . bred in Israel’s hot dry climate to stand high temperatures. Jericho is an imposing Romaine. Under fertile conditions it can grow dense hefty 2’ tall heads of light green sword-shaped upright leaves. Yet it remains crisp, juicy and unusually sweet." – Fedco seeds
- "[Israeli introduction] Bred for desert heat, Jericho thrives in our hot summers. The tall (24"), heavy, light green heads retain their sweetness even when other lettuces have gone bitter or gone to seed. Good tipburn resistance, a favorite among market growers." - Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Market Farming Forum Correspondence:
- "When seeding lettuce in summer, cover your just-seeded flats and put them in the refrigerator for two days. Take out and you will see germination in about a day. Even though we have grown many lettuces before, trying to get one that works, this is a first for us. We also planted several "summer crisps" along with it, "just to see". Jericho outgrew them by many times, and they got bitter and bolted. Jericho is a winner for southern lettuce growing."
"No shade cloth!!! Under full sun, no bolting before large enough to harvest
(it did eventually bolt, but stood a good 3 weeks!). We irrigate EVERYTHING
we grow - T-tape." - Au Naturel Farm
- "Stays sweet even through August temperatures. The first lettuce we have ever grown that was still sweet enough to pass our standards by the time it was large enough to sell." - Laughing Brook Farm
- "The Jericho lettuce we grew was started in flats and set out as 3-4 week old
transplants on drip tape on 12" centers. It was very dry here (South
Central Kentucky - just outside of Bowling Green) for most of the summer, so
that when we went to transplant, we would turn on the drip and let it run
about 15-20 minutes and then just push the transplant down in the wet spot.
After transplanting, we would run the drip irrigation about 6-8 hours and
then twice or 3 times per week. We grew Jericho along side of various
summer crisp and buttercrunches and Jericho was the only lettuce to reach a
good size without a bitter taste or bolting. A typical planting gave us a
7-10 day harvest window (which is outstanding!). Customer reaction was
excellent. When we would arrive at the farmers market, other vendors would
run over to grab lettuce out of the boxes as we were unpacking and setting
up. Always makes me feel good when other growers buy our produce.
We first heard about Jericho from David Redhege with the Kerr Center. He
told us he grew it successfully in Oklahoma (!) during the summer (!!) in
2001.
We do not use Jericho in our mesclun mix. Mesclun was grown under shade, on
drip. Typical days from seeding to harvest was 16-17 where as spring and
fall sowings are 21 days from seeding to harvest. We could only get 1
cutting from a mesclun seeding, whereas during the winter we get as many as
6 cuttings per seeding." - Au Naturel Farm
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