Growing Lettuce from Sowing to Harvest

Lettuce is quick-growing, fuss-free and can be grown just about anywhere. Whether you’re growing it for sweet, firm hearts or to create a pick-and-mix of leaves, you won’t want to run short of this dependable salad.

Grown for its luscious leaves, there’s a cornucopia of both hearting and loose-leaf varieties to explore.

In this short video we’ll shown you how to sow, plant, care for and harvest this varied vegetable.

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[scifigrl]

"Lettuce know in the comments down below." 😉I see what you did there.

[speedtimothy]

My favorite variety is ‘Lettuce Pray’ grown in church yards lol

[jsteciak]

We make lettuce seed tapes to make sowing faster when it's cold outside. Make a 50:50 paste using flour and water. Glue the seeds onto toilet paper at your preferred spacing. Use a toothpick or watercolor brush. Put another layer of toilet paper over your seed tapes while the glue is still damp. Place in the garden in early spring and cover with a 1/2 inch of soil. The paper biodegrades quickly. Making seed tapes is a great project for kids. This works for other small seeds like carrots.

We cut off a head of lettuce and leave the stem in the ground. Bibb or leaf type, they all regenerate multiple crops before summer heat overwhelms even the slow to bolt varieties.

These videos and comments are a wonderful way for gardeners to learn and share.

[cherylcain]

I'm trying my hand at vegetable gardening for the first time at age 79! I'm finding your "Growing from Sowing to Harvest" videos incredibly informative. I especially appreciate that you give temperatures and distances/heights in both metric and American measurements. Thank you!

[rachelrosario]

Thank you for your awesome videos. Never had any luck growing lettuce. Our cool weather is not cold enough in Down Under. I’m inspired to try again after seeing your video. Cheers!!

[nathanjensen]

I grow 'em in rows! Thanks for the wonderful video.

[livspysselhemregard]

Love your movies. So fun to follow your homestead. Through we live in Sweden we can learn a lot from u. Best regards T och M

[donnajacques]

Love you guys I learn so much from you

[kanyeheyoharriet]

Thanks for this immense knowledge on vegetables. I will never be same again.

[JohnSmith-zvkm]

just off to follow your advice and start of in modules as I do have a major slug problem at my allotment

[RuthUmejuru-cknk]

I found your video informative. Thank you.

[meselemiassacul]

I really like this video .you explain very well for those that have'nt expirence about these kinds of plants yet .thank you.

[BodaciousCamille]

You're a delight to watch. Thank you for yet another gem of a video. :)

Favorite lettuces are, Boston, red and green leaf.

[sunshinemac]

i love lettuce so this video helped a whole lot!

[PlayerTenji]

I love Red Ruby Stream lettuce. Loose leaf is my favorite due to quick turnaround time for growth!

[normancomeau]

I love adding to a mixed salad ingrédients come lambsquarters and plantain leaves.

[juliamartin]

Love my leaf 🍃 lettuce here in Nova Scotia Canada 🇨🇦 very healthy, grows very well.

[stewartthomas]

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[lindacrosby]

I find your videos informative and a joy to watch. I'm learning a lot about gardening and plants. Thanks and keep the videos coming. I caught the lettuce joke. Good one.

[amwartwork]

iceberg on a tuna wrap! sooo refreshing