Growing Lettuce: You're Doing It WRONG! 3 Tips To Grow TONS Of Lettuce All Year Long in Any Climate!

In this video, I share 3 lettuce growing tips to grow tons of lettuce all year long in nearly any climate! After years of growing lettuce, I've learned that most people are doing it wrong. These three growing lettuce tips will turn lettuces from a seasonal treat to year-round abundance!

Whether you're in a hot climate or a cold climate, or whether you're growing lettuce in raised beds, in earth beds or growing lettuce in containers, these tips can help you be successful and extend your growing season.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction To Growing Lettuce Year Round
1:24 Three Critical Lettuce Growing Tips
1:52 Tip #1: Selecting Lettuce Varieties For The Season
5:07 Tip #2: Warming Lettuces During Winter
8:26 Tip #3: Hot Weather Lettuces And Shade Cloth
12:13 Adventures With Dale

If you have questions about how to grow lettuce year round, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and "garden hacks" like this, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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[foragingandurbanfarmingatt]

I encourage everyone to let some of all your lettuces go to seed... it's a surefire way to get another crop in the fall. And save seeds as well. You're a genius dude, pull up the grass, plant lettuce with the flowers and veg. Yes

[artstamper]

I would have liked to see how you use the shade tarp. Also, a list of lettuces for each season would be really helpful rather than a brief mention.

[cherylanon]

How to Grow Lettuce, 101: don't bury the seed--just sprinkle on top of soil, water with extreme fine mist every day (or 2x a day), lettuce seeds need light and a bit of moisture to germinate.

[TheMillennialGardener]

If you found this video helpful, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊 TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Introduction To Growing Lettuce Year Round
1:24 Three Critical Lettuce Growing Tips
1:52 Tip #1: Selecting Lettuce Varieties For The Season
5:07 Tip #2: Warming Lettuces During Winter
8:26 Tip #3: Hot Weather Lettuces And Shade Cloth
12:13 Adventures With Dale

[cottagefarmflowers]

Near Tampa here. 9b. I've been gardening forever and always quit the lettuce in June. I never thought to consider the variety! Love this about gardening, it's a never-ending university.

[chiefredbird]

Zone 9 i grew roman from seed from a plant i bought at the store and grew it too seed. Its very hot here in florida so i grow lettuce under a shade tree. Works fine.

[mudpiemudpie]

There's no growing lettuce outdoors in the winter in my Zone 5b Upstate NY garden where the temps get down to -20 for more than a month. Even the most cold hardy varieties won't survive that without a heated greenhouse. The other problem is sunlight. We have extremely short days up here come November.

I tried Giant Caesar two years ago and harvested it as a cut and come again plant. It wasn’t bitter that year . Last year was hot and it bolted and got bitter so I pulled it. This year I didn’t get to plant the spring cool weather lettuces so I harvested the edible weeds, and last years surviving Kale and Collards.

I tried Egyptian Lettuce and harvested leaves every day. Look for lettuces that grow in hot climates.

[J_LOVES_ME]

This is my new favorite channel! SO much great information for a new gardener.

[carbrock.]

Have you considered interplanting it underneath taller plants that would provide shade? I've been trying to grow lettuce underneath okra this year.

[Mindfulmommaof]

I'm so glad to find someone in NC so I can learn gardening within my own area!!!

[Mmneverend]

I’ve directly sown lettuce seeds in north Texas many years. But not into the fall/winter! Will try to overwinter with some short tunnels over the beds this fall

[StormCaller]

This video gave me a great idea. I'm going to make a deep growing frame. Then I'm going to frame out 3 lids for it. One will have plastic, one will have that bug cloth, and one will have shade cloth. I'll be able to just switch out these lids as needed, throughout the year.

[MonikaJordan]

In Z 9B here in the Gulf Coast of Texas also and I’ve NEVER grown lettuce because I never thought I could. I’m very excited to hear that I can! Thank you for all of your tips and information! So grateful for your video! I was very happy to see that you also use Baker Creek Heirloom variety seeds as well! Question: To grown a summer variety, in what month do you plant your Giant Romain?

[Lemonz]

I almost never cut an entire lettuce plant off at once. I normally just pluck a few leaves from multiple plants as I need them, and let them eventually bolt so I can collect the seeds. :)
I currently only grow Flashy Butter Gem Lettuce, because it’s really resistant to almost everything my Danish climate/nature throws at them. Slugs don’t really like it, and almost no bugs eat it.
I found this lettuce because I bought a packet with a mix of varieties from Baker Creek, and during a particular wet night all the other varieties had been eaten all the way to the ground by slugs, except for the Flashy Butter Gem. :)

[justhappybehurr]

I love my 40% shade cloth. I have one just like yours and have used it for a couple years now. I use bungee cords to hook on the grommets and hook the other side to the fence which goes around my raised bed garden. Works really well for covering a large area and not just a single bed.

[patticriss]

This may be the best video I have ever watched. Exactly what I needed when I needed it. Wonderful, useful and hard to find information. Thank you very much.

[teenagardner]

Great video with tons of information. We live in 8b coastal SC very similar to your climate. I can't wait to restart some lettuce now instead of waiting till fall. Dale looks so at peace at the beach not a care in the world🥰

[MichaelRei]

You have opened my eyes about lettuce. Besides the fact that I thought lettuce had a very small growing season I am going to keep my garden from being dormant in the Winter. Thanks a lot!!

[evoltnvii]

I grow all my greens hydroponicly but this video has a lot of great info thanks.