The transplants are looking good now, they have recovered from the stunting and have started to grow. We have been using about 1/2 tablespoon of the nature safe fertilizer on them every week and they seem to like it. We have been weeding once or twice a week but will be mulching with wood chips to help keep the weeds down. The plants seem to need extra water so a few times a week they get watered by hand. There have been fire ants all over our plot so we used some diatomaceous earth to deter them. Seems like a good start even though a little later than everyone else. With the temperatures still reaching the high seventies and low eighties our late plant time may give us an advantage. My hope is that once the lettuce is big enough to harvest it will have cooled down a little to slow the onset of bolting.