How to Harvest Lettuce & Other Leafy Greens without Killing the Plant
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- John from www.growingyour... shares with you 3 ways you can harvest lettuce plus his advanced tips for harvesting lettuce and other leafy green vegetables.
In this episode, John will share with you how he sustainably harvests lettuce and other leafy green vegetables from his garden to get the highest yields out of each plant in his space challenged backyard raised bed vegetable garden.
You will discover 3 ways to harvest lettuce including cutting the whole head, the cut and come again method, and simply harvesting the lower leaves off the plant.
You will learn how many leaves you can pick off each plant to ensure it grows back fast and that you get the eat out of your garden instead of the grocery store.
Next, you will discover John's advanced tips on harvesting lettuce so you can determine which method you should use to harvest the lettuce growing in your vegetable garden.
You will then discover how you can use these harvesting techniques on leafy green vegetables other than lettuce, such as tree collards and bok choi.
Finally, John will share his thoughts about growing and eating your leafy green vegetables and why they are so important.
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
02:00 Tour of lettuce bed growing 100 heads of lettuce
03:00 Why I'm making a video today
05:50 Harvesting Whole Heads of Lettuce
08:40 Cut and Come Again Method of Growing Lettuce
10:50 Harvesting Outer Leaves of Lettuce
13:50 Advanced Harvesting Tips
16:09 How my lettuce came again
17:47 Harvesting other Leafy Greens tips
18:39 Harvesting Bok Choi tips
After watching this episode, you will know the most important ways to harvest your lettuce and other leafy greens you are growing and will be able to use the proper harvesting technique based on your specific situation.
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Original Episode on Sustainable Harvesting
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.Thank you. I like your health angle on gardening . My mom was a depression era gardener. She liked to use what we already had on the farm with a few exemptions. peat where we lived in N Michigan was a hour north so we would take the pickup there and load it up. We composted leaves she would send me out there to turn it once in awhile. we had chickens she filled a barrel with water and chicken manure from the coup and dip it and put it between the rows. sadly she didn’t explained it to me just go do it. never pesticides. she had chicken wire around the garden and would herd the chickens in there Occasionally it also kept wild animals out. Her garden grew like crazy . I didn’t appreciate how good we ate growing up. Fresh eggs fresh chicken fresh vegetables pick berries in the woods apples in the fall mushrooms in the wild thank you Mom
Very nice tribute
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
02:00 Tour of lettuce bed growing 100 heads of lettuce
03:00 Why I'm making a video today
05:50 Harvesting Whole Heads of Lettuce
08:40 Cut and Come Again Method of Growing Lettuce
10:50 Harvesting Outer Leaves of Lettuce
13:50 Advanced Harvesting Tips
16:09 How my lettuce came again
17:47 Harvesting other Leafy Greens tips
18:39 Harvesting Bok Choi tips
How many times can you harvest the lettuce and what is the intervals?
Greens are keeping you young. I can't tell when I'm watching an old video of you. I swear you look younger now.
I've been eating greens from my garden for the past 2 months. I didn't eat enough greens before coz they're kind of expensive!! If you pay $3 for a bag of greens, you end up limiting how much you eat to save money, but when its in the garden you up your greens intake in order to use up your greens. I have 2 lettuce planters, 1 mixed lettuce in the soil and some spinach and I eat them every day and whenever people visit i make a bag for them and make bags for my neighbors whenever I see them in their garden. I seed them quite think like mini lettuces and just cut as a go along.
I really want to thank you, have taken a lot of notes from your channel and my garden is improving thanks to some of your tips!!
Thank you John! I appreciate your wisdom and kindness to spread the core knowledge of sustainable greens. Your humor is a gem throughout the videos. I find myself giggling like a child. 😄
Best parts are when he chuckles at his own lil jokes.
You have a lot of seeds to harvest too! That is such a blessing for future planting
You are awesome, Ive learned so much in this video. I love growing my own greens :) Thanks so much for all the knowledge you share
Thanks that was just what I needed to know!
Having a great year with my greens
I harvested some of my more mature lettuce yesterday and the stem was one of the best parts of it. 😋
I'm really into longevity and healthspan as well, and FYI one of the biggest factors to help is to intermittently fast and to avoid dry and high heated foods (like the kale chips you mentioned), they contain lots of AGEs (advanced glycation end products) that cause a irreversible inflammation process that ages us.
Interesting
Tree Collards! What the heck, you're revolutionizing my gardening habits! I have always felt defeated when things start bolting and start pinching centers too soon I guess. So trying this.
John, Your real life bok choy harvesting bar scene connection was classic. lol. There are no other youtube gardeners quite like you... haha Keep it real.
THANKS FOR THIS INFORMATION. JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!
My God, thank you John for the knowledge . I have some romaine in my kitchen window box. Boy o boy it is lovely. I harvested a lot from it already. I thank you for showing how to cut the leaves the right way. So excited!!!
I really love doing like 12 plants in a couple hydro tanks on a slightly staggered cycle and I get lettuce every single day. More than enough for a few people.
You mention early in the video that the lettuce will easily keep for a month in the fridge when stored correctly. I'd love to see a video talking about the best ways to store greens in the fridge, whenever I try they quickly become limp, lifeless and gross, lucky if they make it a week before being thrown out.
mysterytour67 seconded!
Generally I dont like to store greens in the fridge, they are best stored in the garden, but sometimes before bolting, I will harvest in early morning, and store them. for lettuce, pick whole heads, remove bad leaves, put in a plastic bag with some holes in crisper drawer. Other tips in my video ruclips.net/video/zUQ3Z6jhe_Y/видео.html
What you do is rinse/soak greens to get all the dirt off. Then put them in a salad spinner and get most of the water out. Then store them in plastic (yikes!) or something friendlier maybe a dry tea towel and roll them up and store in crisper. I use a large ziplock bag for the greens and they are beautiful for days and days. But of course the greens start to oxidize immediatley after they are picked. So you would get the best nutrient value to eat them just picked. Hope this works for you!!
1. Thing to remember- NEVER use metal (neither scissors nor knife) to cut them! Use ceramic as he does or a plastic bladed implement or bare hands! Metal harms the plants & makes them brown fast.
2. There is special bags you can order & use to keep greens longer. I don't remember the brand name but it might be called 'Green' bags it is not exactly plastic but it allows Co2 to pass 'out' & the plant can remain fresher.
3. Wether harvesting to eat or not, keep all the lower leaves up off the soil- they gotta go compost fast or just away because they draw all the insects that hide under anything touching or dangling that the larvae can attach to & eat. If you have a raised bed like this, I say, start at one end & harvest all the outer leaves in a 3 or 4 foot block for the day. Juice it or whatever but stay consistent. Next day move further along until you have reached the next block. By the time you finish all 100 plants, you should be able to start the beginning again.
Deborah Hanna helpful tips!
So...knowing that you rep!ant your beds, once the current crop is done, is there a reason why you cut the lettuce to the ground, rather than just pull it up, since you said that one was not going to regrow? Thanks for all the information you share year after year!
Always learning something new, CUT AND COME AGAIN". You rock!!!!
I have serious lettuce envy
Solar panels....I like it how you describe the leaves 😂
not sure if anyone gives a damn but if you are bored like me during the covid times you can stream all of the latest series on instaflixxer. Been watching with my brother for the last weeks =)
@Lennox Trey yup, I have been using instaflixxer for since november myself :)
Awesome learning alot.. thanks bro..
Just subscribed. Awesome video.This is exactly what I was looking for. Ty
John that is Bronze Mignonette Butter Leaf Lettuce...that bolted. I have some in my garden!
Seems like the best way to not waste food or lose viability in the garden is to juice the smoothies every day but label half of them as soup base & freeze for winter.
That is a great lettuce garden. Very nice! I am just starting to learn how to garden and I love it.
Love your compassion! I don't harvest if it kills either.
Lovin you from Vancouver Island, Canada. You've been inspiring me for years! Much thanks.
Thank you for inspiring us in your garden. You are so awesome.
You are amazing. New sub and I am really appreciating the wealth of information you offer. Thank you.
Got mixed lettuce from mixed seed packet. They've bolted but very pretty little flowers which would look nice on a salad.
I love your videos, informative and hilarious. I find myself actually laughing at your comments. Lol I don’t think I would harvest my lettuce while I’m high. I definitely need to look into a brownie tree for munchie time. 😋
Great video, and a great learning experience!! Thank you. Question: Can you, or anyone, advise me what to do with my kale that has already turned tough and bitter on the outer leaves (it's fall now), but I don't want to risk damaging the plant by eating the younger, better tasting inner leaves. Do the outer leaves get more sweet after a frost?
When my lettuce starts to bolt like that and i cut the whole thing down, there’s a milky substance that comes from the stem. Is that ok to eat? Or should i remove all the leaves from the long stem. Thsnks
I've had dinner, with a BIG salad from the garden... Yet watching this makes we want salad.
Thanks for the tips and advice, John
Great information. Thank you very much. I always learn so much from your videos.
I'm growing about 10 lettuce plants in my garden but my chickens had gotten out and ate the leaves of the lettuce, kale and other things like that. Most of the plants came back, except one. One lettuce plant is just slowly dying and I don't know why. It has water and sunlight but it is still dying. Should I do a cut and come back or just completely remove it? Thanks and this video was really helpful.
When bok choy bolts and creates a young flowering shoot, those scapes are rather delicious and tender. When those are sold in markets in China they are snapped right up.
“It’s good for your liver or something” 😂😂😂
I laughed so hard
Really needed this info thanks!!I have not seen this sort of detailed gardening advice on other gardening channels!! 🌱
thank you
Can you do the same for spinach
Yes, just cut the bigger leaves off, and let the smaller leaves grow bigger.
And the plant will also grow more leaves later.
Another great Vid. Here in Reno, my Lettuce is barely up. We don't have 4 season, but 2. Summer, Winter
thank you this is so informative
I know you use a lot of amazing things in your soil, so you rarely probably run into these problems. This question stems from my pepper plant, which it still just a baby seedlings (maybe 6-8 inches) and it has a calcium deficiency. The new growth is kind of deformed and bumpy easily recognizable.
My question for you is can you make a video about recognizing nutrient deficiencies! It's very rare to find a video on RUclips on this subject. Of course a Google search is quite easy to find this information, but I always trust the information on the internet. However I do trust your opinions, because everything I have tried that you've recommended have given me giant healthy plants! Currently I am using the Rock Dust to try to help the calcium deficiency, although I'm not sure that it will be a quick fix, because Rock Dust takes awhile to sink into the soil and start working.
Should have watched this a few days ago. Lol. All is ok. Live and learn! Thank you!
Thank you John! Love the video!
Can you do a video on maintaining decorative cabbage/kale? Once mine matures its getting sooo large and top heavy. It has an 8 inch stalk above the ground and then the leaves. Not sure if I shouldve been pruning all along. They are nice for fall with deep purple coloring
Great info !!!Thank you.
An ad just popped up on your video for round up ready weed control system. Is there a way to restrict that?
Meats and fats are still essential. We have k9s, what greens are those for?
had failed garden year after year-then we were attacked by biting stinging mites,,,killed my dogs and almost killed us...30,000 $ later we're almost thru it--now we use cedar oil/cedarcide and just recently started lemon balm and spearmint gardening....i notice my container garden is doing very well-yard soil contaminated(mites,bad nematodes and poison)so,containers and raised (clean)beds it must be..the mints and lemon balm keep nearly all bad insects away...i mix my own compost with cedar saw dust from my art studio/work shop-tomatoes love it.use a ph and nutrient tester to keep everyone happy------thanks for all your vids,they've helped us a lot peace out ,,,,jeffrey from arkansas...so,glad you cured yourself,we're trying to do the same
Research 'Kleen Green' into Google. It's made from vegetable enzymes and will kill almost any pest made of protein which includes most parasites but is harmless to humans, animals and plants. Good to get rid of dog/cat fleas and parasites on plants. too! Hope this helps.
I realize this was 3 years ago, but I have a question. New gardner here. My husband like iceberg lettuce so that is what I planted. Can you take leaves from iceberg heads too (since they grow in almost a ball shape)?
Take a shot every time he say nutrient 😂😂😂
I'm shitfaced
What happens if you cut off the top before they flower? I see videos where some growers do 3 cuttings then replace.
There is no world in which you don't get high hahaha
Wrer fo u get tree collard seed or what company make them
How do you keep bugs from eating it? June bugs are eating my lettuce kale and hibiscus :-(
Brenda Shults I cover my beds with a micromesh garden cloth I got off Amazon... water and sun still get through but not bugs
I sure hope the breakup wasn’t over this lettuce incident, it must be really bothering you to talk about this in multiple videos.😏 I think we can all appreciate that gardening is always a learning experience, and we all learn new things everyday. I can’t imagine Lauren meant any harm, and I also don’t think she’s probably watched all 8+ years of videos...John, let it go! I watch you avidly John, you’re great and you are totally entitled to ‘your opinions’. LOL. I think we all appreciate learning your different methods of harvesting lettuce in this video also.
By the way love your RUclips channel
John, work on condensing your information. There was so much repetition in this video! The usable knowledge could have been conveyed in 5 minutes easily instead of 23. My take, never having watched any of your videos before, is to move on to somebody else's videos who gets to the point and doesn't repeat the first two methods 5 times in a video. Even worse, it took about three quarters of the video to get to method three, cutting individual leaves, which was what I was looking for. And showing the regrowth of cut and come again didn't show up until nearly the end of the video. This was extremely painful to sit through. I'm sure you can do better and impart your knowledge much more effectively.
I watched the video on 2x speed. Wish I could speed it up even more
I guess it depends on who you are. I enjoyed that the methods were repeated, since I learn better this way. Due to his rephrasing, I didn't have to watch the video multiple times.
Made the same comment, scrolled down and saw a similar comment, good to know I m not the only one who found this video unnecessarily long
I'm brand new to this and found all the info and repetition helpful. You found the time painful to sit through but took the time to write that long comment. Perhaps you should have just moved on.
Lighten up Francis!!!! WTF
Are the 2nd and 3rd cuttings much more bitter than the first
17:08 why is that a waste? Will it not grow back from there?
can't log on to your website?
can you tell if i can grow asparagus in big pots.
What does "bolt" mean
John, I enjoy your videos no doubt about it from the juicer videos to your gardening videos. But there’s way too much talk and sometimes you repeat yourself and I get lost and what the presentation is all about. Here’s how we trimmed the lettuce boom show us trimmed here trim it here and move on. It seems like we had to wait forever to get to the subject of the videoanyway I still enjoy them. There’s just too much talk and not enough action. Thank you very much for all that you do you’re very wise.
So did a neighbor steal it or was it your girlfriend or something?
he'll never admit it hehe
In the next q&a video he said it had been his now ex girlfriend.
Fair reason to ditch her...
It was the boyfriend of the girl at the bar. He came for revenge as he beat the bf up to get to the girl due to him being in bolting mode and having a one track mind! lol
I have a new raised garden. I planted it @4/30. I still don't have squash fruit or bell peppers. What can be retarding the production of the plant fruit?
How quickly do they regrow?
4lbs for juice??? You must have your own gas factory 🤣
There's always money in the banana stand.
I live in Sierra Vista, AZ zone 8B 4700 feet elevation. How do you control ants? I’m on 2.5 acres and we have tons of ants in the garden. I’ve tried sugar and borax in a container but even though they ate and died, there are so many of them they just get replaced with more ants. Most farm aphids also. I’ve tried spraying with water, using organic neem oil and today cinnamon. I’ll check cinnamon tomorrow. Any advice? Help.
Preferred methods begin at 8:41
I love you so much. You're so quirky. 😊
Where can I get one of those greens tree behind you, when you are talking about the t-shirt.
It is a tree collard. He propagates and sells them sometimes. I believe they are not true to seed so you will need to buy plants.
He talks about them later in the video too
ruclips.net/video/s4hmPv4rkkw/видео.html
Where I live (south Alabama) the tree collards are plagued by caterpillars during the warm months and perhaps slugs as well. If I didn't go out and routinely inspect each plant and pick off the caterpillars, they'd be stripped.
What type of scissors do you use to safely cut the leaves off?
I know you use scissors in the older video.
Why does my lettuce 🥬 Wilt as soon as harvest it what steps can I race to keep it fresh? Please help if anyone knows any tips or why this happens?
Your just too cute :) Die at the bar? LMAO LOLOL Not you not ever. and your probably letting many of them get so big because they are just so beautiful to look at :)
can you please tell me what you mean when you said "bolt?"
Bolting is when a plant sends up a flower stalk and then makes seed. Lettuce bolts easily when the weather is too hot.
Does anybody know what varieties of lettuce he is growing?
So, who was the culprit?
I think this is the same guy I got a juicer from!
Apu from the Simpsons
Thank you, come again.
What happened to him @8:47 lol
I'm sure he meant to edit first take out
LMAO. what a goofball :)
Not judging but I gotta know how stoned are you?
How stoned?
ALL THE STONED.
How stoned?
YES.
I actually have no idea. Which side of the garden is this again?
It must have been a bunny rabbit!
be verwry verwry quiet,,,i'm hunting wabbit
It seems like the first second of your intro audio is chopped off.
Lot of knowledge, too many words to convey it
Mmm... Forellenschluss
it pains me to see how that one lettuce was harvested lol
I think you need to sell those greens.....there's no way you can eat all of that before it goes to seed. You have so much there! Maybe there's some homeless or food pantry that will take the excess. How to store heads of lettuce long-term? Will a basement cellar or underground cellar preserve the lettuce? How can lettuce be preserved without freezing it?
never mind. i think it means tall...
Right simple but if you don't know gardening and harvesting is complex as the saying from 1992 goes Ou est Mon Bok Choy now 2018 the seeds are in the organic rock dust worm casting enriched earth still learning from your teachings hash tag at waiting for the plants to rise and so on therefore Plant Dancing.
Oh if I only had a space to grow lettuce.
Better delete all your marijuana videos, RUclips is cracking down and deleted my account because of one seed unboxing video :( I haven’t watched any of your videos since because I’ve been so heart broken over all my videos being deleted. Sad to see RUclips go down like this!!
Thanks for all your informative videos over the years John!! Learned so much
First they came for Alex Jones... and I did not speak out because I was not Alex Jones...
Lmao you nut thanks for being you
That would take a lot of plants to make a single salad.