How to Grow Lettuce from Seed to Harvest
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2018
- In today's video, I show how to grow lettuce from seed to harvest!
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Correction: At 1:30 and 5:14, the metric conversion should be 6 mm (not 25 mm). Plant lettuce seeds 6 mm deep.
Table of Contents:
0:14 Types of lettuce
0:32 What lettuce is easiest to grow?
When to plant
0:39 When to plant indoors for spring
0:45 When to transplant outside
1:00 When to direct sow lettuce
1:08 When to plant lettuce for the fall
How to start lettuce indoors
1:28 Planting seeds indoors
1:46 How long seeds stay viable
2:12 Light placement
2:19 Days to germination
2:31 Soil temperature for germination
2:45 Fertilizing indoors
3:05 Watering indoors
Planting/transplanting lettuce outside
3:35 Best soil conditions
3:44 Sun requirements
3:58 When to plant out
4:20 Hardening off lettuce
4:35 Apply compost before planting
4:53 Plant spacing for beginners
5:03 When to direct sow outside
5:20 More Intensive plant spacing
Growing
6:09 Fertilization
6:27 Watering
6:38 Weeding
6:44 Mulching
Growing lettuce in summer
6:52 How to delay bolting
7:09 Slow bolting varieties
Harvesting
7:24 Days to Harvest
7:40 How to harvest earlier
Pests
7:55 Fences and barriers
8:05 Sluggo Plus
Season Extension
8:14
5:38 Oscar the cat
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There is nothing more rewarding than growing your own food, you never reach the pinnacle of gardening, you just learn how to grow better, thanks for your videos
I have been planting and harvesting my own lettuce for the last few years. It never ceases to amaze me how many seeds I can get from one plant that came from one seed. One plant with over 200 flowers each of which contains 12 seeds. I don't think I'll be paying for any lettuce seeds for the foreseeable future.
They tend to be viable for 2 years
I can't grow them
You are so lucky. Every time I plant lettuce seeds they get leggy and they die out. I want to master growing them so badly since I love salads and lettuce is so expensive.
Correction: At 1:30 and 5:14, the metric conversion should be 6 mm (not 25 mm). Plant lettuce seeds 6 mm deep.
Table of Contents:
0:14 Types of lettuce
0:32 What lettuce is easiest to grow?
When to plant
0:39 When to plant indoors for spring
0:45 When to transplant outside
1:00 When to direct sow lettuce
1:08 When to plant lettuce for the fall
How to start lettuce indoors
1:28 Planting seeds indoors
1:46 How long seeds stay viable
2:12 Light placement
2:19 Days to germination
2:31 Soil temperature for germination
2:45 Fertilizing indoors
3:05 Watering indoors
Planting/transplanting lettuce outside
3:35 Best soil conditions
3:44 Sun requirements
3:58 When to plant out
4:20 Hardening off lettuce
4:35 Apply compost before planting
4:53 Plant spacing for beginners
5:03 When to direct sow outside
5:20 More Intensive plant spacing
Growing
6:09 Fertilization
6:27 Watering
6:38 Weeding
6:44 Mulching
Growing lettuce in summer
6:52 How to delay bolting
7:09 Slow bolting varieties
Harvesting
7:24 Days to Harvest
7:40 How to harvest earlier
Pests
7:55 Fences and barriers
8:05 Sluggo Plus
Season Extension
8:14
5:38 Oscar the cat
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Each of your videos is a masterclass in some aspect of gardening, and there are, what-100 of them? Incredible. Thank you for sharing your expertise!
Thank you! I feel more confident in starting my garden after watching your video.
I love that you keep your videos simple
One of the very best growing videos. Great job!
One of the best videos I've seen yet. Kudos!
I appreciate to your attention and your efforts thank you for your time
What a clear and crisp explanation. Thank you.
I appreciated the bit on planting more intensively for fall and winter. Dunno why I never thought of that! Thanks!
You're welcome!
I like Burpee Bibb lettuce. For anyone just starting out it's a great butter head type. Delicious!
Very comprehensive edu talk.. Thanks. Shall give it a try
Hallelujah!!! I video full of useful info. I will save this and keep referring to it as I learn to grow lettuce! Thank you !!!!!!
At the start of this video I thought I should subscribe. Halfway through I was wondering how lettuce looks growing in a short clip. Then you did that 3 minutes later. Subscribed. Awesome content
Soon as i seen the shirt I knew this was going to be a good video.....
love the shirt. "straight out tha garden!"
This was so well done! Thank you! Super thorough!
Love the t-shirt. For some reason lettuce is one crop we've struggled with here in Indianapolis. Kale, swiss chard and pak choi does great for us. Thanks for all the tips. Your depth of experience and info is amazing.
Thanks!
Sheer magic, as always and, also because of you, we're closer to our dream than ever before! Xx
Thanks Ilse! I'm happy you're getting closer to your dream.
Lovely, good information for gardening,
Another great video, Patrick! Lettuce is also easy to grow in containers -- I plant my lettuce on my containers on the balcony.
Thanks Steve! Very true.
I'd love to see you do a "How to Grow Broccoli" video
Quality information here and shot really well. Thanks
i am sowing, i am planting,
i am clipping, i am snapping,
birds are singing, cats are napping,
bees are buzzing, dogs are panting,
rabbits racing, spiders spinning,
garden blooming, peas are growing,
beans are climbing, vines are winding,
wind is blowing, sun is shining,
clouds are stretching, rain is dancing,
harvest time and I am prancing.
Âmen !
Ypur garden looks so beautiful and green 👍
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 very helpfull, thank you from Kuwait 🇰🇼
I’m in love with butter crunch and romaine.
Thank you! Subscribed. Cut and come again of young AND old plants all season long - even on head type lettuce - is great to hear you explain. Also great to know harvesting outer leaves of head lettuce is also acceptable. So much was very helpful. Thank you too for great examples of plants at various stages. Going to find your zone 5 winter video - I'm in the same zone - and that might help me too. Blessings.
Excellent tutorial. I learnt a lot today. Thank you, Pat
Thanks Fernando!
Excellent your videos.
Thanks so much for the advice. I started my lettuce indoors and I had problems with them stretching. By watching your video, I learned that my grow lights were too high and I needed to lower them. I may need to start over with new seedlings but I will see if lowering the light fixes the lettuce babies I have now. Thanks again......and that shirt though. ;)
Thanks for the advice coz am a beginner so I checked on your RUclips channel and it has tought me a lot am from kenya
Love that Straight Outta Garden t shirt
Good tips. Thanks much for making this video.
Nice little video. You are so right about being cool season crops. In my zone 4a garden lettuce's are just about the first thing in as soon as I can see the ground. And they are the last thing in the fall. :)
Thanks Mark! I'm happy to hear you get your cool weather crops off to an early start. I'm always surprised to see even experienced gardeners waiting until after the last frost to plant lettuce and other cool weather crops.
that was great at explaining, thanks👏
Thanks Patrick. Another great video
Thanks Mikey!
Very helpful video, thank you so much. Great video too! The best video about lettuce. 👒🤠🥗
Garden looks good! 👨🌾
Thanks!
Don't plan on growing lettuce but this seems interesting.
Patrick, our madmen with amazing lettuce !!! Congratulations! I realized that we must plant them densely so the air does not destroy them. I understood correctly? I plant them one in the east and the other in the west! haha. Thanks.😂
Thanks Lamprine! Plenty of air circulation is good for lettuce, but they can be planted intensively in most climates. In areas that get a lot of rain, intensive planting may lead to more fungus issues.
Thank you from zone 6!
another great video! I was thinking over the wknd what lettuces I should try during the summer, I'll look into the varieties that you suggested. I appreciate you taking time to share your garden wisdom with us. Thank you.
Thanks Denise! If it's hot where you live, even the slow bolting varieties may struggle in the summer heat. But it wouldn't hurt to try some Muir lettuce in partial shade. I wouldn't go all out though. Lettuce does best in cool weather.
OYR Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening I will try that. Thanks! Live in NW Arkansas & temps got hot fast this year
Good stuff of lettuce
SO much good info here, thank you!
Thanks!
I'm slowly working my way into eating more lettuce. I always felt like I ate nothing with it, but now that I'm older, it's kind of a way to feel full without taking in a ton of calories. I like it for a late night snack, especially with a low calorie dressing. Next year for sure, I'll grow some.
I hope you have a great lettuce crop next year! Maybe you can grow some this fall.
Love your site!!!!!’
Thank you for reminding me to plant some seeds now in a shadier area since it is so hot out this year. I dilute my urine and feed my greens a 1-20 ratio. They love it.
You're welcome, Lark! best wishes with your summer lettuce.
Thank you. I needed the info.
that was cool and simple. thanks
Love the shirt!
Thank you Patrick, I really appreciate this video. So much great information, but missed Oscar. I hope he's snoozing happily in the sun somewhere.
You're very welcome! Oscar doesn't work when it's hot. lol
As always, very well done video!
Thanks John!
Hey😀. I really love this channel, I live in Germany in the city of seven lakes, Capitol of Mecklenburg, called Schwerin. Very good video, I like the details, how to put the seeds and how to harvest, and the Tipps are very meaningful. The star of this channel is your cat🤩
Thank you for giving us the views.
Best regards, Konner from the Freizeitidyll am See
Thanks Konner!
Have you ever thought about turning your transcripts into a book? you have so much info it would be good to have it all in one place!
Thanks for the encouragement, Sam! Yes, I have but it's been hard to find the time to put one together. I hope to in the future.
For a future video, can you talk about the peppers and other things you have growing in grow bags in your front yard? How big are the pots, how often do you water? Do you need to add additional compost as fertilizer during the growing seasons, etc? Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestions, Krista! We use 7 gal grow bags and water about once per week (as needed). We don't apply additional compost.
Patrick, just wanted to say that i bought the straight outta garden shirt and i'm constantly surprised how many comments i get on it! ppl respond well to the message.
where can I get the shirt? only on amazon US?
I like your channel so much,always can learn new things,the city where i live,most people donot have gardens,including me some only have small belcony around 4-5㎡,there are lots of good channels in RUclips which teaching people how to grow veg,but i have to say ur channel gave me more usufull suggestions about how to grow veg in limited places!limited conditions!before i have no idea about which vegs should i choose to feed up in such a small area with only 3hours of derect sun a day,in ur video i got the answer,now i can eat the tomatos grown by myself,also made hot compost successfully,though my english is not very good i still wrote this comment to tell you its such a wonderful channel,im glad to watch them!
I'm so happy to hear my channel has helped! Thanks for letting me know, and best wishes with your little garden.
Wonderful videos!! Thank you.
Great video, Patrick!
Thanks!
Love your t-shirt!! 😁
Excellent
Great video thank you.
Thanks for the in depth piece. I grow lettuce and have for years but it's good to confirm good practices and learn new ones. Special thanks for the seed life mention.
My shallots and lupine are giving me a beautiful garden show right now. No sign on my mushroom but...
You're welcome, Douglas! I hope your mushrooms make an appearance soon.
Would you recommend planting during winter?
@@maysunhossain7302 Sorry, for me winter planting is not really possible. I have in years past 'grown' various greens under covers but it's a bit of trouble and with minimum light it's really less growing and more just storing outside. In winters I tend to go with sprouts in the window sills. GLTU.
Thanks for the video
Hey, great video! I really enjoyed it. Do you have any advice on cucumbers or melons?
Great info!
I adore lettuce
very good 💚🌿👍🏻
Thank you!
Super and Amazing....
I just found your channel and subscribed!
Thanks for converting to Celsius!
You're welcome!
"...no threat of frost" laughs in Canada when there's still snow in may 😭😭😭 i want to start gardening since the price of groceries have skyrocketted but the weather is so unpredictable 🤣😭
Thanks bud...
Would love to hear a video on how you deal with plant diseases... blight, etc etc
Thanks for the video idea, Prachi! The only thing I do is mulch to prevent blight and prune diseased leaves. I don't use any sprays or anything like that.
I’m growing lettuce with soil/dirt from outside and it’s as beautiful as the soil from the store
Right on Mark! I make my own soil potting mixes from my own compost as well. The less things I have to buy from the store, the better!!
Good Video.
Thanks!
Thanks for another awesome video. Busy with lettuce, it's winter here in South Africa. I would love to see a video on berries, raspberries, cranberry, blueberry, those are so expensive here in SA and would love to grow them myself.
Thanks for the video ideas, Andra! Enjoy your lettuce this fall and winter.
A sweet corn video would be phenomenal
Thanks for the idea, Amando!
You, sir, became one of the reasons to buy a house with a backyard. Though I won't be able to do much this year, I certainly have saved your tips and tricks for next season.
By the way... where is Oscar, what did you do with that fluffer !!!
Best wishes with your garden next year! Oscar doesn't work when it's hot. lol
Amrinder Singh I live in the southern U.S. but my daughter's moved north so we reference OYR a lot for his information since he, too, is in the north. He's given her good tips for her new gardening venture.
Easy peasy
My Favorite Annual food crop. cool
Thanks!
Hi there from Cali,
What a beautiful crop & lovely video! I’ve heard at a workshop I went to, years ago, that the earlier in the day you harvest lettuce, the less milks in the leaves which leads to less bitter lettuce!?... Try it out & see if you can add that in to your great info. I was convinced! Thanks for helping others learn to grow their own food in a time no better, than others, to learn.
Blooming Blessings -{@
Thanks
Another great video! Thanks. I've heard that "sown" lettuce tends to bolt less than transplanted lettuce, although I haven't tried to verify this. Do you have any thoughts on this? Cheers.
Thanks Ron! I've never noticed a difference.
Hope all is well with you.
Im going to Utah for a few days to visit one of my daughters, then when i get back, im starting my fall garden plants in the basement. I am determined to figure out how to grow carrots in the fall! Its freakin hot until November here so i hope starting them inside will help with that. Fingers crossed!
Have a great trip! I'll be starting some carrots next month too.
Late planting my lettuce this year but finally had my first salad today. The best! Planted some mustard greens along side the lettuce and it seems the flea beetles are back. Read that catnip is a deterrent for them so I'm going to give that a try. Off topic, how do you harvest Egyptian walking onions in their first year? I don't want to reduce bulbil formation or I'll have to buy them again this fall.
Hi Valerie! You can harvest all the leaves except the one that produces the bulbil. Enjoy your salads!
Question: doesn't mulch also encourage pests to come in, like pill bugs? In my garden, anywhere I put mulch I will get tons of pill bugs underneath very quickly. It seems that I can push them back away from my plants by spraying a 5% vinegar solution.
Great video! thank you! the "Straight Outta Garden" shirt reminds me of the kind of skate graphic style I used to see during my years in the Straightedge scene. Coincidence? Best wishes!
it's a reference from straight outta compton if u didn't know :)
Can you do a video on swiss chard
Up top forever
Can you harvest let us during or after bolting?
so can i use liquid fertilizer in the grown before plantin the seed to obtain a fast and better resolts?
Thank you for the tutorial. Lettuce is my bane. Did I miss Oscar?
You're welcome! I hope it helped. Oscar doesn't work when it's hot out, but he makes an appearance around the middle of the video. I always put the time codes for Oscar's appearances in the first comment and description.
Sounds like they are putting in shingles today! Lol My yard long beans are coming on! Will be picking first fruits by next week. So far my tomatoes are rockin the house too! Been sucker pruning this year and it seems to be working!
Yeah, 3 new house are being built very close by. It's really hard to shoot videos now. Our tomatoes are starting to take off too.
great tips, thank you for sharing?
stay connected! :)
Thanks!
What’s a frost? It only drops below 10°C a few days a year here.