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Romaine lettuce may be used in the Passover Seder ritual feast as a type of bitter herb. It symbolises the bitterness inflicted by the Egyptians while the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. [7] [8] The day of 22 Germinal in the French Republican Calendar was dedicated to romaine lettuce, as "Romaine ". [9]
Pruning is a horticultural, arboricultural, and silvicultural practice involving the selective removal of certain parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots. The practice entails the targeted removal of diseased , damaged, dead, non-productive, structurally unsound, or otherwise unwanted plant material from crop and landscape plants .
Further south in Norway with warmer and longer summers, Ålesund at 62°N is in zone 9, and Sarpsborg south of Oslo at 59°N with more continental summers are in zone 8. Inland it gets colder in winter, Hamar at 61°N is in zone 6 and Røros further north is zone 4. A garden in Simrishamn, southern Sweden.
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A plant cutting is a piece of a plant that is used in horticulture for vegetative (asexual) propagation. A piece of the stem or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium such as moist soil. If the conditions are suitable, the plant piece will begin to grow as a new plant independent of the parent, a process known as striking.
Morton has bred at least 99 types of lettuce, [5] and his company, Wild Garden Seed, offered seed for 114 lettuce varieties in 2016. [6]On August 10, 2015, 'Outredgeous', a red romaine lettuce bred by Morton in the 1990s, [7] became the first plant variety to be planted, harvested and eaten entirely in space, as a part of Expedition 44 to the International Space Station.