Starting Lettuce Indoors
How to grow lettuce from an old lettuce stem.
Starting lettuce indoors. A garbage bag is for more than trash. How to plant lettuce indoors or in containers year round 1. Starting lettuce indoors lettuce grows quickly so use containers that are large enough for the young plants to reach garden size without an.
In fact as i m writing this post i. Label with the variety name and. Sow or transplant lettuce into the garden as soon as the soil can be.
You will begin by purchasing a gallon sized black trash bag. Fill the containers with damp but not soggy potting mix to within a half inch of the rim tapping them to settle the mix. Although most lettuce plants can stay healthy indoors you ll have.
3 better finished. Seed starting mixes are lightweight they help your plants roots grow and. Lettuce is so easy to grow it can be started indoors for early transplants or sown directly in the garden.
Collect the right materials 3. Spread out the lettuce seeds 5. Start some lettuce seeds indoors in peat pots a few weeks before the last frost date in your area.
The easiest way to start growing lettuce indoors 1. Did you know that you can actually grow lettuce from another head of lettuce. Direct light is preferred as long as the growing location does not become too hot.
I begin starting lettuce seeds indoors around january 15th every year. However the stems have the potential to regrow their lettuce leaves using only. Find a home for it 2.
Seed germinates in 2 to 10 days at or near 70 f 21 c but sometimes. Choose a lettuce variety that thrives indoors. If you practice succession planting in your garden there may be times when you just don t have the space to.
Growing lettuce from lettuce. Planting lettuce indoors 1. If you have ever bought a pack of romaine lettuce from the store you probably threw away the stem at the end.
Using that end dip it in the seeds to easily pick one or two. Watch your lettuce take root. Plant your seeds.
Fill a pot with a seed starting soil mix. Lettuce seeds are small and light so put them in a white plastic spoon. Start lettuce seedlings indoors poke a hole with the handle of a plastic spoon through each rockwall cube.
Gently bring the. Starting lettuce seeds indoors 1 timing. In fact doing both is recommended to get maximum production.
Seed is viable for 5 years. Then dip the end of a spoon in water. Start lettuce indoors 4 weeks before transplanting.