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Little Question about Lettuce
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Little Question about Lettuce
I am gardening for the first time and planted a few types of lettuce. My Black Seeded Simpson is doing well and I wasn't sure when I should start trimming the leaves for my salad plate! I don't want to do it too early and risk killing it off, but I don't want to wait to late and have it stop growing. Any suggestions? The largest of the four in the square I want to trim is probably the size of my outstretched hand.
kateh- Posts : 11
Join date : 2012-04-25
Age : 44
Location : northern illinois
Re: Little Question about Lettuce
It's ready. enjoy
Kay
Kay
A WEED IS A FLOWER GROWING IN THE WRONG PLACE
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walshevak
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Age : 81
Location : wilmington, nc zone 8
Re: Little Question about Lettuce
in my garden, i harvest lettuce from the outside in, starting when the leaves are 4"-6" tall. leave the center leaves so they can continue to mature. as long as you keep cutting, and as long as your weather allows, they will continue to grow and provide more salads!
Re: Little Question about Lettuce
Thanks - Happy Dinner for me!!!
kateh- Posts : 11
Join date : 2012-04-25
Age : 44
Location : northern illinois
eating mine already
Yes, thank you forum I didn't know you could cut the leaves and leave it to grow more. So far I have had 2 salads from my garden and tonight I eat another. DH has planted a row garden for the last 3 years and we got 3 squash and 2 tomatoes. This year I retired and got my SFG. I have been eating squash every meal for a week. I love squash!! and have gotten lettuce, radishes, and onions. I told DH that next year we need to make it bigger.
Yardtigress- Posts : 11
Join date : 2011-10-31
Location : GA
Chop Chop
I normally wait until the leaves are about 6 inches tall and then I cut the complete bunch off about 1" from the ground. Leave this part in the garden and it'll grow again for a second harvest.
Also, another good tip is stage your lettuce planting, that is, plant a square every one or two weeks part. Aren't freshly cut greens out of the garden absolutely the best?
Bill
Also, another good tip is stage your lettuce planting, that is, plant a square every one or two weeks part. Aren't freshly cut greens out of the garden absolutely the best?
Bill
mrwes40- Posts : 123
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Location : Zone 6b (Central Connecticut)
Re: Little Question about Lettuce
I am overun with lettuce! it just keeps on growing
kbb964- Posts : 317
Join date : 2012-03-28
Age : 61
Location : Rochester Hills, Michigan
Re: Little Question about Lettuce
Give some to the soup kitchen...
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Little Question about Lettuce
My local food bank got a small donation of lettuce, mustard greens and chard last week. It was only a plastic grocery bag of each, but I was welcomed as if it was a truckload. And by clipping my plants I'll keep them producing and not bolting as soon.
Kay
Kay
A WEED IS A FLOWER GROWING IN THE WRONG PLACE
Elizabeth City, NC
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Age : 81
Location : wilmington, nc zone 8
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