Why I'm Never Buying Lettuce Again...
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- I am obsessed with growing lettuce at home. Between the unique varieties, quality and cost savings it should really be a crop that all home gardeners take seriously. Especially if you love salads! Here’s my complete guide to growing, harvesting, storing, and preparing lettuce!
00:00 - Intro
01:06 - Varieties
02:14 - When to Grow Lettuce
03:50 - How to Plant Lettuce
04:45 - Lettuce Development
05:26 - Harvesting Lettuce
07:10 - Washing Lettuce
08:41 - Lettuce Storage
09:07 - Garden Cobb Salad
13:28 - Store Bought vs. Home Grown
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Cobb Salad Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 4 strips of bacon
- 3 eggs
- 4 beets
- 5 radishes
- Handful of sliced pickles
- 1/4 cup of blue cheese
- 2 heads of your favorite lettuces
- 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of fermented mustard
- 1 tablespoon of honey
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Reserved bacon fat
- Reserved oil from roasted beets
Instructions:
1. Lay the bacon down in a single layer in an air fryer. Cook for 10 minutes at 375F.
2. In the meantime, get a pot of boiling water and hard boil your eggs. Boil for 10 minutes.
3. Once the bacon has finished cooking, remove them from the air fryer and save the rendered fat from the bottom of the air fryer into a small container. Dunk your hard boiled eggs into an ice bath and let sit.
4. In the meantime, cut the root and tops off the beets and place them into a large piece of aluminum foil. Drizzle over some bacon grease along with salt and pepper. Air fry for about 350F for 25-30 minutes.
5. Move onto prepping the rest of your ingredients. Slice your radish into thin pieces. Roughly chop up your bacon strips and pickle slices. Peel the shell off your eggs and give them a rough chop. Set everything aside.
7. Once the beets are done, take the skin off and cut into bite sized pieces. Set aside.
8. To a jar, squeeze in the juice of 1 lemon, apple cider vinegar, fermented mustard, honey, the grease from the bacon, the juice from the roasted beets, salt and pepper to taste. Close the lid and give it a good shake to emulsify.
9. Roughly chop all your lettuce and place into a large bowl. Add in your chopped eggs, sliced bacon, sliced radish, roasted beets, blue cheese, chopped pickles and pour over your dressing.
10. Using your clean hand or tongs, give everything a gentle toss to coat every single item in the dressing. Serve immediately and enjoy!
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I buy the ‘living’ lettuce from grocery store. Comes with three types of lettuce. I gently separate them and plant them in my garden. And we have fresh lettuce all season!
Ive always wanted to try that!
Anytime a new video of Pro Home Cooks drops I make my mom watch it with me lol. We learned so much about lettuce today that I didn't even know existed. Time to power up my garden! Thank you so much.
Love the recent farm + garden content!!! Super helpful, you are my favourite channel at the moment 😁
I only just started gardening 4-5 years ago. At first, I was overexcited to grow all of the things. Now I only grow varieties I can’t easily get at the store or high dollar items. Greens and herbs of all sorts are definitely the biggest bang for your buck.
That’s exactly how I niched down. It made it much less overwhelming, too. For anyone who lives in an apartment with small outdoor space- using a vertical planter for all the herbs frequently used will eventually lay for itself. 😊
Mane, that lettuce washing water could have been used in the garden! Water is gold.
I was just about to say the same thing. Put that in a rain bucket 😂
Outlook looks grim. Idaho farmers are in a Huge battle to stop over reach by the gov. The stupid thing is they have tons of water.
I see a Fremen
Another alternative is "Alfalfa Sprouts" grown in containers. I have grown these year round indoors and have greens for salad and sandwiches even in the dead of winter!
Pouring water through the leaves to drain is just going to get more dirt trapped. Much more efficient to do a 2 bowl method: wash in a bowl with enough water that there's a enough clear water space at the bottom, wait a few minutes for all the dirt to settle to the bottom, then pluck the leaves out into the 2nd bowl and do it again. If it's supermarket leaves, you can go direct from the bowl to the spinner but for home grown lettuce, good to do a 2nd bowl just to confirm all the dirt is completely off.
Yep, this is how I clean all of my greens. The dirty water gets thrown back into the garden.
Everyone has their own way of washing lettuce but I'm with you on the salad spinner. Been watching you since the BG days. Always interesting vids
Wow, I'm so jelly of your awesome greenhouse!
Absolutely love how you edited the chopping
thank you for the info and inspo---one tip (a jammy 7-8 min egg is delightful) and a sow is a female pig. sow ("so" or "sew) your seeds!
Great video! I love growing lettuce in my container garden! 🥬🪴
lol when you pulled out the industrial salad spinner! Love it! And, that salad looks so delicious!
I grow my own lettuce hydroponically, but the problem is I live in Florida, so I have to add ice cubes to the water occasionally, otherwise it'll bolt quicker/taste more bitter due to the heat
Then since I'm in Texas i should not try either, right! 9:25
i am doing hydroponics and moving to florida. thanks for the tip
You can use shade cloth
Lettuce is not the easiest crop in Florida’s summer.
Great tip! 🎉
This inspired me. I've been going crazy with growing peppers and tomatoes, I need to elevate my lettuce activity.
I've been wondering about this myself-- it seems I have a lot of wasted space in my garden box (4x8) and was thinking about lettuces around the pepper plants. Research time!
The chickens, the kitchen, the garden 🙌 Goals
I love your garden to table videos❤ !!!! I look forward to seeing more of your little homestead 🥰
My 1 rogue lettuce that volunteered in my Raspberry Barrels produced thousands of seeds! Found it today- and harvest the entire thing. Thrashed it on a large tray- removed the grubs and fed to birds, and was able to save thousands of seeds just from one plant! Got about 8 packets worth of lettuce seeds just from 1 plant!!!
This is very helpful. I've just started my own little garden set up. Don't have much space so using a couple grow bags & nabbed a GreenStalk during their recent sale. I love salads so lettuce, arrugala & such were 1st on my list. Just gotta figure out how to do it in this blazing south TX heat.
This is fantastic. Please make more of these garden videos
My all time favorite salad dressing:
* pumpkin seed oil (the best one is from Austria, Styria and make sure it is cold pressed)
* balsamic vinegar
* mustard
* honey
* salt & pepper
Works amazingly with a simple green salad!
what kind of mustard do you use? this sounds delicious
@@ethernetgirl2001 estragon mustard is my preferred or dijon mustard
I am from austria. We call this oil machine Oil. :) Recently there was some trouble with this oil because they found out, that the producers of the seed oil where selling more of the oil, than pumpkins where growing. It was kinda mismatching, so they investigated this case and found out, that the producers of the oil imported the seeds very cheap from china. A scandal, if you ask me. :)) You shouldt try to make a mayo out of it, with a very soft vinegar like homemade applecider, cut thin slices of beef (carpaccio, steak stuff, but raw), cover the plate with the mayo and lay the thin sliced beef on it. Few herbs...food for gods.
OMG that mayo with beef sound amazing! Will try soon. Thanks fallow Austrian!
You can grow lettuce in the summer - this is how - just like you use a cold frame for cold nights, you need an overhead dark tent to shade during the hot sun. With the sides open for morning and evening sun is all your lettuce needs - or if you have a tree for summer shade. If your lettuce is bitter it wasn't pampered enough keep up on water. Head lettuce is not a good summer choice. Lastly, if your lettuce bolts or become bitter - the greens taste wonderful when cooked.
Appreciate the washing & storage tips!
I really love growing lettuce. I've had varying success. I over wintered some so was able to enjoy fresh lettuce in March. The frost cover made the difference. Now I'm using shade cloth to see how long into the hot months I can grow lettuce.
I always struggle to come up with a good dressing for salads. A dedicated video on dressings would be much much appreciated ♥
its all about salad dressing:
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Oil + vinegar + flavors + emulsifier (garlic, honey or mustard are common)
What's the struggle?
Wow! Ur greens r gorgeous!!😍 Can't believe you're sharing all this awesome info! U r literally answering All of my questions re: correct way to harvest & keep lettuce growing healthy! Lol, even ur radishes!😍 5🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!!!
I live outside Chicago, zone 5b. It bolts before I can get a decent harvest. I grow swiss chard instead that will grow from May thru Nov/Dec without bolting.
have you tried mizuna mustard? its supposed to do well in the heat and it just tastes pretty lettucey to me with a bitter finish and a very slight peppery note it kind of reminds me of arugula
@@ethernetgirl2001 I just planted mizuna seeds yesterday! I haven't grown them or eaten them before but I love arugula. I'm sure I'll love mizuna too.
@@gigiartstudiowithartistvir3919 good luck! i also planted them for the first time this year so ive only tasted the first bigish leaves. i havent actually used them in anything yet but i might end up liking them more than arugula.
Also in Chicago and growing lettuce is a breeze. If lettuce bolts, then you harvest it and plant some more. If you just want green leaves, there are tons of things you can plant.
Cries in Zone 3 growing zone.
I love this kind of video! Please make more video of different crops.
Thank you so much for sharing. Even though lettuce was easy as crops to grow. I had a challenge growing up between the pets my soil and harvesting but now that I’m able to grow it and you’ve fine-tune the steps I’m gonna do better and be more organized with it thank you so much.
Can you do a video about growing produce indoors? I live in an apartment and don’t have the ability to have a garden but I’d love to start an indoor herb garden and learn more about what I can grow indoors as well as how. I found your videos recently and you have really been inspiring my cooking! Thank you!
Lolol my lettuce bolted in March in one of the coolest areas of my garden.
I grow lettuce all winter in Northern CA. I have raised beds and I don’t even cover them! I just direct seeded some and it’s getting hot so will see how they do! Home grown lettuce is awesome!!
It would be cool to hear about which varieties of a vegetable you like and how you like to use them in the kitchen.
Thanks!
You might as well save that water from rinsing the lettuce to water the growing lettuce. - At least you know it’s not contaminated as the lettuce being rinsed is from your garden too.
You're able to grow it in a raised garden box. My aunt started doing it about a year ago and hasn't bought any from the store since.
Good job 👏
Love all your videos. I have learned so much do you have a book ?
I love growing lettuce. I tend to grow romaine types and marvel of 4 seasons.....best results and easy cleaning.
I do try to get some in the heat of summer here in my Chicagoland garden, but even with a shade cloth I frequently lose that battle.
I'm trying a variety called "summertime" but germination has been less than 50% so far.
I love the beets in the air fryer idea, I will be trying that for sure.
The commercial grade spinner looks excellent, but no place to store that monster in my kitchen. LOL
You can grow lettuce year-round. I live in Texas zone 9A. Not happening here in the summer. Even heat tolerant lettuce can't take it.
I am in zone 9A also so when it gets too hot to grow lettuce, then that would be the time to turn to the grocery stores I guess or the farmers markets. Maybe even grow salad mix micro greens
@@terryhall2299 Store for me. I wouldn't by lettuce at a farmer's market here this time of year. The chances that they actually grew it are slim to none. And I really don't like microgreens.
I AGREE! We can’t grow it in the summer tho. We are into the triple digits so have to buy it. Arrrrg!
I think it's the same person as "Mile Zero Kitchen" that I subscribe to
If you don't, there is a difference in the presence or absence of glasses that feel the same, the difference in the place where you live, and the type of cooking you make.
Any chance you could do a video on strictly indoor growing of this kinda stuff? We live in Sask Canada where there's basically only 4 months a year that make sense to grow outside.
Great video 🇳🇿❤️
How do you manage the weeds that grow between lettuce and other vegetables that you grow?
In my 7B (Middle Tennessee), I can't grow edible lettuce year round. It's too hot in the summer, and temps the rest of the year are too inconsistent. Spinach & kale handle the fall/winter/spring seasons really well where I am, but - for me - growing tasty lettuce is like finding the golden ticket.
Do you grow spinach? I've been growing in my apartment. I'm just wondering how you prune dead leaves so I can make room for new leaves
I've got my favorite type of lettuce (curly green, a.k.a. Lollo Bionda) growing spontaneously all around the garden like a weed, I simply let a few plants flower and spread naturally each season, in my climate it completes two full life cycles every year (and fall seeds survive winter on the ground without any intervention). It doesn't interfere much with my other crops and can even draw some leaf munching pests away from more delicate plants.
Do you make dressing to store in the fridge for multiple salads? I made a big batch a while back and eventually I think the oil separated and turned white...it was weird looking and I threw it out. I don't typically try to grow lettuce in the summer where I am because it's too hot. I know some are heat tolerant but when it's 110 outside the poor lettuce doesn't do well lol. But we only have light frosts that lettuce can survive so technically I can grow it all winter.
*cries in renting*
You could get a long box and grow lettuce in your window - I’ve done it with a hydroponic garden before, but I don’t think it tastes as good as lettuce grown in dirt.
A small raised bed or just a few big pots will let you grow lettuce. I live in Florida and struggle is with getting my lettuce to come to a head but I have had success with the clip and regrow method. I harvest the outside leaves leaving the core then just harvest again once the leaves are large enough.
You could also go with a hydroponic set up that will grow indoors or even an aquaponic set up that works both indoors and outdoors.
Greenstalk?
@@christopher5855 I have no outdoor space available to me, so I do appreciate your suggestions but they're unfortunately not super viable for me. I'd love to have the indoor space to grow my own food but that's really in the cards for me either.
Do you have a window? Grow it in a pot by your window.
I'm in a 400 square foot apartment with no patio and a city with no urban gardens. The farmers market lettuce is 7$ a head and is filthy. The bin lettuce that molds in 2 days is my best bet. How would you fix this if you had no money to build or move?
I grow lettuce under a light during the winters. I'm a single guy and I pretty much just use lettuce on sandwiches, tacos, and maybe a rare salad or two. I grow lettuce in sour cream containers (24oz, with drain holes) and 6 or 8 of them keep me well supplied just trimming the outer leaves when I need lettuce. They don't last long in the small containers, they get rootbound, maybe 2 months at best, so it's important to start new lettuces every month or so to avoid dry spells. My light is a full spectrum 600 something or other, it wasn't much money, I think about $45 USD but that was a couple years ago. I'm growing outside now and I have lettuce coming out my ears, I wish you were nextdoor, I'd give you a bunch, lol.
Agree with Jim. All you really need is a grow light, potting soil, a pack of leaf lettuce seeds. I use cheap aluminum lasagna pans and don't poke any holes in them. It's easy to tell when the soil needs water.
Problem is it doesn't last long. When the temps go up it bolts quick. When the temps go down it stops growing. Been doing it 40 years. Still beats store bought. Don't know what Zone 7b you're in but 7b east coast with or without cover no way 9 months out of the year
I am in Hungary, June is usually bolting time, no matter what. Plus since I live in a very agricultural surrounding where they grow a lot of canola I have a plethora of this tiny beetles, that destroy every plant thats in the brassica family plus every salad crop. I could use the leaves as a sieve. Its frustrating. And I do everything I can think of, to work arround that problem, but......they are millions....literally. 😪
This is my first year growing lettuce, it’s so delicious I’m growing in a raised garden. I have lots of rabbits
Fast food burger ads work on people, but so do salad videos work on me. I have a craving to make a delicious salad and wash some leaves.
my mom grew leaf lettuce and tasted great
I always forget to water my lettuce after a few weeks 😂😂😂
Leave in salad spinner and keeps great - mine is a cheap ikea one
I grow a lot of lettuce, but unfortunately, I can't grow it all year round here. I just pulled out the rest of my lettuce, as it's been in the 100s for a week, and it was starting to bolt and taste bitter. I only grow outside in the spring and fall. I do grow some hydroponically in the winter, but the outside stuff always tastes better and has a better texture.
Kale and Cilantro too!!!
Hey Mike! Thanks for sharing your salad recipe , i would like to gove you a tip to try and im sure you love this.
After boiling your eggs , chop the whites into the salad and keep the yolks. Blend the yolks with mayo , lime joice , black pepper, sugar and garlics , abit of olive oil and vinegar.
Add the dressing to your salad alongside some croutons , satisfaction guaranteed!
And advice or resources for people in hot climates? I live in Austin, TX so I'm definitely not worried about things freezing.
Many, many years ago when my mom first tried gardening and had little experience with how much some things produce, she planted about 18 heads of lettuce and there was only the four of us, so we couldn't near all of it.
Should check out Goi Ga(Vietnamese Chicken Salad) and Goi Cuon(Vietnamese Salad Roll aka springroll)
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Jelly..... in So. Cal. the critters are starving and everything disappears overnight..... :(
bacon fat dressing. Amazing! I love growing lettuce in a greenstalk!
I have grown a few different varieties of lettuce, but I’m looking for lettuce varieties that look like a couple you have shown here. WHAT EXACT VARIETY OF LETTUCE IS THAT AROUND 7:56? It looks incredible! Also, what are your top favorite varieties? Thank you!!
Where did you get your seeds?
Just place salad spinner in fridge after spinning. Keeps lettuce super crisp.
I loved to grow lettuce, but I like the crunch of Romain and iceberg... which are harder to grow & shorter season.
Lettuce likes cool weather, hot here in Texas
I’m curious, what do you do with your excess? I can’t imagine you eat THAT much lettuce..
I live in Boulder CO and it's so hot (and dry or whatever!) here that all the lettuce anyone tries to grow bolts. Doesn't work.
Wouldn't you need to buy it in the summer since lettuce/greens are cold weather plants?
There are varieties that can be grown year round.
Not quite sure I'd be saving money with how much it would cost to set up a greenhouse garden.
not having a salad spinner doesn't mean the lettuce isn't washed - it's just not dried.
I love lettuce but I really don’t care for salads with the exceptions of Greek salad and Caesar salad variations as sides not meals. All the lettuce I consume is used in wraps and sandwiches, burritos and tacos, wilted or sautéed, and dropped in soups , stir fries or couscous. Oh and used in Vietnamese style spring rolls the rice paper variety.
If you want fresh greens in the south, especially during the summer, you're better off growing things like vegetable amaranth and malabar spinach.
I agree with the amaranth but I haven’t had any luck with the Malabar. You can also grow sweet potatoes and use the new leaves in salads and other dishes. You also get to harvest tubers in the end.
@@christopher5855 yeah malabar spinach is a bit difficult to start. I've found that I can't start it until the middle of May here in Texas. That plant loves heat.
My lettuce comes up every spring because I always let one or two of them bolt. Hundreds germinated in the lawn this year, which is great because I hate lawns. I told all the neighbors to help themselves.
he feed the chickens with the salad and later the chicken is IN the salad HAHA
I'd love to grow veggies. Esp lettuces. Im bit sure i could keep the safe either from all the critters we have in the rural town here. And some classes in theses courses😢.
The problem that my family encounters with our garden is that it gets demolished by rabbits/rodents if we don’t heavily reinforce it
Lettuce is pointless, but growing garlic, spring onions and herbs! Oh that’s money save!
And lots less plastics. That's another reason I'm gonna start growing my own spinach too.
Not in the desert, and good greenhouses are expensive.....
90 mph winds don't help either 😢
Slugs say hold my beer
Honestly, idk how people grow so much without a ton of pest.
It's funny how I can grow tomatoes or peppers with no problem, but "easy" crops like lettuce just seem to hate me for some reason
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The reality of it is $3.99 or $.27 (+ work, time, weather, garden costs) Im sure it tastes great, but at what cost. Between a normal work week, and weekend obligations most folks don't have the time/effort. If you have all the time its a great was to make your own food.
My lettuce costs me nothing because it comes back on it's own every year. It has naturalized itself to my yard and doesn't require a thing from me. I don't even water it.
You do not live in Norway I see!!
i dont get it, you have to grow like 12 heads of lettuce - the electric bill, the water bill, nutrients already making the total cost you more than buying from a store...
not everyone has space to have multiple heads of lettuce in rotation, nor extra money to grow that much lettuce just to eat a salad every other day.
Lettuce can be grown indoors using LED lights, which don't cost as much to run as a lamp on your desk that isn't LED. When I lived in an apartment there was no way I could garden unless I grew indoors. I used the Kratky Method during that time. It was easy and barely made a dent on my electric bill. I grew other types of greens that way too. I didn't need a bunch of space because I grew everything on one of those wire shelving racks up against a wall. The shelf only took up about 4ft of wall space. Even fertilizing was cheap because of the Kratky Method. I didn't need to use much at all. So, I guess it's all a matter of perspective and going a little outside the box. :)
Yeah yeah, yeah, you have a huge garden, I get it.
Some people might not have one tho - and be jealous, like me, you know? Imagine that
Let me just become rich to have the space to grow my own food sure 😭😭
Living rurally is actually far cheaper than living in a city or dense urban area
@@jessicamccormick701 Good luck having a boatload of money to purchase land and even the raw materials, if you were to build the house yourself.
@@Szczurzyslawa I already live somewhere I can grow a garden (I'm not rich, I'm in my early 20s and a mum, renting a tiny place).
I'm not trying to attack your comment, sorry if it came across that way. I just want to point out that gardening and having space is definitely not about being rich, its about the choices we make in life and if its something you are interested in it is probably acheivable for you too! In fact, most of our grandparents gardened out of necessity because they were poor, definitely not because they were rich.
I will definitely never choose to live in a city again, even though it can mean sacrificing other things in life, because the cost and quality of life seems so terrible to me! But if you really do want to grow your own food while living somewhere without outdoor space then there are options too. I think he did another video on how he used to garden when he lived in an apartment.
@jessicamccormick701 Good for you 👌 Renting a place with a garden is very expensive here, but soon I'm moving out to a place that has a tiny balcony so at least I can have some mint/basil/rosemary 😭
Our grandparents were poor, but usually got their land/home inherited from their families, so they at least had roof over their head. I'm not even that poor but just the cost of housing/renting got ridiculous here, compared to all other things. I'm so anxious every day... we rent 2 ppl no kids, both stable incomes and I'm still never sure if I'm safe. Knowing I'll never have a chance to inherit a place to live is daunting.
We already rent a tiny 1 room "appartment" in a rural area to make it cheaper (still its not cheap), it takes me 1,5h to get to work every day, and I can't just move out even farther cuz I do need income to live lol (can't afford a car so a public transport it is)
put water in the spinner and spin it with water in first. poor out water and spin dry. no?
All my greens grow very bitter and earthy flavor. Not sure why. Arghhh.
Tear the leaf off close to the main stem with your fingers. They come off clean and easy and you dont leave that cut stump that goes brown from using your scissor/secateurs.