Our favourite is Marvel of 4 seasons. It’s crispy, has a good taste with leafs that have a red top and a green lower half. So it also colours your plate nicely.
@@GrownToCook 🌿🍅🍃🌻🌱🐾🌷☘🥕🌶🐞Great video. I am growing more lettuce this year. QUESTION: Would you please describe what type of support is holding your cattle panel trellises upright? They look so nice.
We have been using the leaf by leaf havest method we saw on Charles Dowding's channel. It works really well for us. You only need a comparatively small patch of your favourite salad types, and use up far less space because there is no succession planting. Plants last though most of the summer, soon standing on their stalks, a bit like Brussels sprouts in winter. Thanks for sharing the video.
@@GrownToCook As we are only two, we only need a few lettuce when leaf cropping. We find for us it is best to buy the few seedlings we need from our local organic farm supplier - called Delftland - they usually have 6 to 10 varieties. The left overs from the bulk sales to farmers. 20 plants, enough for all season cost less than a single packet of seed. If we choose to start from scratch, the first choices are usually little gem, which we normally harvest the whole, and my favourite, Webbs Wonderful. A very crisp and tasty but not too tight large wrinkled head. So far they all seem to crop for as long as we need. It can look a little strange seeing a lettuce head 10 or 20 cm off the ground like half picked Brussels sprouts. We are in Fenland, UK, which was drained by Corelius Vermuyden in the 17thC, as Dutch as he sounds. We have quite a few Flemish sounding place names around. Thanks again for the interesting videos.
I always grow Paris Island Cos (it's kind of crispy) but this year I grew Lunix also which is a dark maroon color, and it did really well. Love your videos. I started a food forest in the US zone 6 about 4 years ago.
Thank you Stewart! I have grown Australian Yellow as part of my little pottage where I had all kinds of yellow and orange veggies at one side and red and purple on the other (the design is in my book). It did well and we were able to harvest for a long time!
Hi from the north of England. I just discovered your channel through Hugh, and love it. I've got some ideas for interplanting in a small garden thank you.
I too pretty much try to grow lettuce almost year long. We are in southern New Hampshire Zone 5. Pretty much eat it from mid April through January. Great information
Thank you! I will try to expand the number of varieties we grow in winter in the greenhouse this year - it seems many more are successful than just those specifically recommended for winter growing
Tango! I know they do wilt very quickly but they get started in the winter very early, they have a mild taste (not too bitter) and they fluff up salads really well.
My climate is a bit colder, so I sow first lettuce in late March and then transplant it to a large polytunnel. I've noticed that its leaves are more tender than exactly the same varieties grown outside (where it's colder but they get slightly more sun).
Protection from wind (in the polytunnel) would certainly keep the leaves more tender. Plants outside can become a little 'tough', especially in the colder months
Interplanting is great! I have a polyculture bed going now with tomatoes, broccoli, dill, nasturtiums, cilantro and some lettuce too. I will share it in a later video!
@@GrownToCook right I'll try different spots to keep planting in shadier areas or areas that get more morning sun or afternoon sun and see where lettuce likes growing best during the heat of summer, as well as try different varieties like you to see which withstands heat better. I like all the good early lettuce as well because it keeps me from picking the Kale so that gets a nice head start!
This is a great video. I ❤️ lettuce! What is that big leaf lettuce you are cutting leaves from toward the end? It’s beautiful and would prob be awesome for wraps.
This year I am trying Freckles Romaine and really like it for its beauty, crunch and flavor. I have Laitue du Bon Jardinier (A butterhead variety, I think) that has re-seeded all over my garden, which I mostly feed to my ducks because we can't keep up with it. It is a good filler, but not my favorite.
Thank you for the the lettuce growing tips. When you're finished with the lettuce do you just leave the roots in the ground to decompose or do you pull them up roots and all and then compost? Thank you!
Hi Ate, it depends a little - if I want to sow a following crop, I will usually remove the roots but when I'll be planting pre-sown plants, it is usually not necessary. Whenever possible it is good to leave roots in the ground :)
i purchased lettuce i have no clue what kind i'm all new to this gardening!!! I transpanted them into small containers i'm in NY what can i do to help them? I also got lots of very very young tomato plants and put them in 5 gallon buckets. What nutrients can i give all my veggies to grow in August here in NY
Thank you for showing how to keep harvesting. I wondered if you can advise how to grow over Winter. I am in the UK where it goes cold, do they need heat or will they just grow in the greenhouse in the cold over Winter?
Depending on where in the UK you are, your climate is probably pretty similar to ours. We grow lots of lettuce in the greenhouse in winter, which is never heated and they do well. The growth slows down in the middle of the winter but then picks back up in February. You can see some of the varieties we grow for winter in this video: ruclips.net/video/Mmi_4gf5MA4/видео.html
We love lettuce and so do slugs, who have eaten most of ours. Do you have any advice? You’ve inspired us to try again because your lettuce look gorgeous.
Thank you! Two things:1) encourage natural predators such as slugs (that's one of the reasons why we have a little pond) and hedgehogs, 2) use protective mulch slugs don't like to crawl over. In my experience, coffee grounds and cocoa shells as mulch help to prevent slug damage. Good luck!
GrownToCook thanks Vera. Good advice. We have a pond, so that's a good start and we are finding wool pellets work as a protective mulch. Also, watering the garden early morning rather than evening. We love your channel. We've created three Wildflowerech areas for pollinating insects. Vipers bugloss (Echium vulgare) is absolutely stunning and much loved by bumblebees. Happy gardening! 😊
Zo leerzaam. Super bedankt.👍 Hoe hou jij de slakken tegen? Alles ziet er nog zo gaaf uit. We hebben zoveel slakken in onze tuin. Kleigrond. Wel op het zuiden. En is boomschors niet een perfecte schuilplaats voor slakken? Ik hoor daar verschillende meningen over. Of hangt dat van de grond af? Zand of klei b.v.?
Dankjewel! De paden zijn bedekt met houtsnippers. We hebben natuurlijk wel slakken in de tuin (zoals iedereen :)) maar het wordt nooit een al te groot probleem, vooral omdat we op verschillende manieren natuurlijke vijanden aantrekken. In de vijver zitten padden en kikkers, in de vakkenhoop een egel, in de mulch duizendpoten en loopkevers. Grappig: ik heb net deze week een stukje hierover geschreven voor mijn volgende boek!
I've been wondering which method gives more lettuce in the long run: leaf by leaf harvesting or cut & come again? Or is it about the same, and just a difference of getting lettuce little by little vs a smaller number of big harvests?
I have not weighed the harvest, so cannot be sure, but my hunch is that it might indeed be similar in regard to the space the plants occupy, but leaf-by-leaf is more spread out and you can keep picking longer
Thank you for a lot of really helpful info on lettuce. I also like to Read all the comments and your anwers because there is a lot of useful info in there as well. I have an off topic question: where did you buy those spirals (for tomatoes I presume) we see in the background in some shots? I really like them!
Thank you, Pauline!! The tomato supports come from a local gardening store 'Welkoop' here in the Netherlands but my parents in the Czech Republic have them too, so I think they're available in many places? They are really very handy because you only need to 'weave' the stems around the support as the plants grow
My lettuce seeds never germinate, I’m on year 2 of multiple batches of sowing. Do you have any tips for that? I’ve even tried to buy new seeds this year in case it was because I had a bad batch last year. :( thanks!
Not sure but a few thoughts: lettuce will not germinate if it's too warm (above 20 degrees Celsius) and you should only cover the seed very lightly after sowing. Do you sow directly or presow? It's easier to control the circumstances if you resow in a seed tray
I've had the same problem, and this works for me: Try pre-sprouting them before sowing. Put a wet paper towel in a dish or bowl, sprinkle the seeds on top, then cover the bowl. Ideally, you'd put the bowl somewhere warm, but with lettuce it doesn't seem to matter so much since it's a cool-weather crop. Keep the seeds moist but not drowned until they have germinated, and after they have you can plant them directly in the ground or into a seedling cup while they grow a bit before transplanting.
Great video, I love lettuce too 🤗 we grow a bunch of korean varieties in the "annual polyculture" you designed, but I'm afraid I can't remember their names 😂
@@GrownToCook better than expected, in fact.. I have trouble keeping up with harvesting 😂 it's a bit overgrown at the moment, leaf mustards are finished but the lettuces are really taking off now 🤯
Just start gardening growing lettuce thank for the great video like you I can eat lettuce ever day just transplant some romaine I have to build some shade cover got 1 meal of lettuce for family tasted great need more information on the soilPlus watering Super hot here in the West Indies
Wish I could post a pic of the lettuce I have growing. It was supposed to be iceberg but looks loose leaf. Real big dark green leaves. Looks romaine but not tight together.
We just finished cleaning up the lettuce since it had bluish grey bugs on some of the leaves, it rained for a few days so I though it was a fungus, but it was thrips or something, as the leaves with bugs were wilted, and put the collected leaves under the hot water dispenser. Apparently there was too high a concentration of lettuce in one spot and what's where they showed up.
Oh no! Maybe it would help to interplant lettuce with other things? I'll be planting a polyculture in one my beds where lettuce will be one of the seven or so veggies. Diversity helps against a lot of pest problems
The lettuce grew a lot faster than everything else, but yeah, I could stand to plant them a lot more sparsely, I was hoping the mesclun mix would count as several different things, since some of them are brassicas like cress. I was putting 1 wide leaf and one cress in each container, and all the rest in a couple extra planters, and both planters were set together, so that's where it got hit. Of course, the next problem will be summer heat cooking containers, so they will need to be dug into the ground soon.
I wash the lettuce in a sink full of water as soon as I get home- if you let it stand for a bit even wilted leaves will usually perk up. And then I dry it in the lettuce spinner and either put the whole spinner in the fridge or put the leaves in a plastic bag and then in the fridge. It works really well!
@@GrownToCook Eerst ben ik te zuinig met zaad wat ik koop. Na een paar jaar is de kiemkracht weg. En heb best last van te weinig groeikracht en dan doorschieten. Heb de verschillende snijsla en pluksla vorig jaar laten bloeien en zaad geoogst. Allemaal niet zo moeilijk. Helemaal geweldig met opkomst.
They are indeed not easy to grow in warm climates... Can you maybe provide a little shade? Do you have a cooler season when lettuce might be more successful?
Well, there will always be some pests in an organic garden :) But I try to find balance, also encouraging predators: we have a pond for frogs that eat slugs and many plants that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies that eat aphids. There's also mulch of coffee grounds around the larger plants and this tends to discourage slugs too
I bought a mixture of lettuce seeds and discovered some new varieties, like devil's ears. Very graphic and beautiful. And as it's red, slugs don't like it.
Yes, but that probably depends on the climate. Also, it s a cool season crop, so I grow it mostly in spring/early summer and then towards the end of the season. And during the winter months I grow lettuce in our unheated greenhouse
Little Gem is my favorite! The tip regarding removal of leaves siding in stopping the plant for bolting is so useful. Thank you!
Hi Robin, Little Gem is great! And I'm so glad the video was useful for you!
Definitely a cornucopia of lettuce you have there and I never knew there was such a thing as a lettuce connoisseur but you are surely one! 😎
Haha, thank you Anthony! I have grown many varieties over the years indeed but I should keep better records :)
Our favourite is Marvel of 4 seasons. It’s crispy, has a good taste with leafs that have a red top and a green lower half. So it also colours your plate nicely.
Thank you! Marvel of the 4 Seasons was one of the lettuces I grew during the winter in the greenhouse - I like it too!
I feel like lettuce grown in soil just has more flavor than store bought hydroponics
Absolutely!!
True and it lasts longer.
@@GrownToCook
🌿🍅🍃🌻🌱🐾🌷☘🥕🌶🐞Great video. I am growing more lettuce this year. QUESTION: Would you please describe what type of support is holding your cattle panel trellises upright? They look so nice.
Jean Peters: She mentioned this in her other video:
ruclips.net/video/9RPLtYpWkg8/видео.html
@@raminsatyahadi4642
🍅🌿🥕🌱 Thank you. I'm on my way to Tractor Supply store to buy cattle panels. This trellis design is perfect for my small garden.
I've never heard anyone so enthusiastic about lettuce ☺my favourites are probably marvel of 4 seasons & grenoble red but I do like lollo Rosso too 😊
I do like my lettuce :) I have grown Marvel of the 4 Seasons in the greenhouse during the winter - and liked it too!
Excellent video. This is the most informative lettuce vid that I have seen. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I ams os glad to hear you like the video- thank you! Lettuce is my dessert island veg :)
We have been using the leaf by leaf havest method we saw on Charles Dowding's channel. It works really well for us. You only need a comparatively small patch of your favourite salad types, and use up far less space because there is no succession planting.
Plants last though most of the summer, soon standing on their stalks, a bit like Brussels sprouts in winter.
Thanks for sharing the video.
Thank you, Nick! Do you have particular favourites for long cropping?
@@GrownToCook As we are only two, we only need a few lettuce when leaf cropping. We find for us it is best to buy the few seedlings we need from our local organic farm supplier - called Delftland - they usually have 6 to 10 varieties. The left overs from the bulk sales to farmers. 20 plants, enough for all season cost less than a single packet of seed.
If we choose to start from scratch, the first choices are usually little gem, which we normally harvest the whole, and my favourite, Webbs Wonderful. A very crisp and tasty but not too tight large wrinkled head.
So far they all seem to crop for as long as we need. It can look a little strange seeing a lettuce head 10 or 20 cm off the ground like half picked Brussels sprouts.
We are in Fenland, UK, which was drained by Corelius Vermuyden in the 17thC, as Dutch as he sounds. We have quite a few Flemish sounding place names around.
Thanks again for the interesting videos.
I always grow Paris Island Cos (it's kind of crispy) but this year I grew Lunix also which is a dark maroon color, and it did really well. Love your videos. I started a food forest in the US zone 6 about 4 years ago.
Thank you for the recommendation and for following! Your climate is a bit colder than ours then?
Here in Australia I grow a lettuce called Australian Yellow Leaf and it is delicious. Thanks for your video.
Thank you Stewart! I have grown Australian Yellow as part of my little pottage where I had all kinds of yellow and orange veggies at one side and red and purple on the other (the design is in my book). It did well and we were able to harvest for a long time!
Hi from the north of England. I just discovered your channel through Hugh, and love it. I've got some ideas for interplanting in a small garden thank you.
Thanks so much, Anna! So happy to hear you're inspired by my content!
I too pretty much try to grow lettuce almost year long. We are in southern New Hampshire Zone 5. Pretty much eat it from mid April through January. Great information
Thank you! I will try to expand the number of varieties we grow in winter in the greenhouse this year - it seems many more are successful than just those specifically recommended for winter growing
We have lettuce as our biggest crop this year. So many good kinds to grow and romaine is my favorite.
Never too much lettuce. I'm sowing a new batch today of romaine 'Outradgeous' (it has dark red leaves)
Tango! I know they do wilt very quickly but they get started in the winter very early, they have a mild taste (not too bitter) and they fluff up salads really well.
Thanks Hayley, I don't know this one and will look it up!
My favourite is actually the Lollo Rosso !
Haha, I hope you don't mind me trashing it! I do eat it :)
My climate is a bit colder, so I sow first lettuce in late March and then transplant it to a large polytunnel. I've noticed that its leaves are more tender than exactly the same varieties grown outside (where it's colder but they get slightly more sun).
Protection from wind (in the polytunnel) would certainly keep the leaves more tender. Plants outside can become a little 'tough', especially in the colder months
Great video 👌. Thank you for the informations.
I also interplant them amoungst broccoli, cabbage and tomatoes. By the time the lettuce is done the larger plants take over. Just a thought for you.
Interplanting is great! I have a polyculture bed going now with tomatoes, broccoli, dill, nasturtiums, cilantro and some lettuce too. I will share it in a later video!
Good rundown. I didn’t know there were so many varieties.
Thank you, glad you liked it! I love the variety in lettuce - it's wonderful for ornamental plantings too!
I really like the speckled varieties - I think they're loose leaf? Romanies are nice though, too. It's satisfying to watch their hearts form.
I'm also growing a cross between a romaine and iceberg - should be perfect for me :)
Loved this very informative video. My favorite lettuce is butter leaf
Thanks, Melinda! I like butterheads too, ours are almost ready for harvesting now!
Thank you for tips
I'm growing more lettuce this year than ever it's great!
That's nice to hear, John! I sometimes forget to keep sowing in the summer (it also germinates less well in heat) but I'll try to remember this year!
@@GrownToCook right I'll try different spots to keep planting in shadier areas or areas that get more morning sun or afternoon sun and see where lettuce likes growing best during the heat of summer, as well as try different varieties like you to see which withstands heat better. I like all the good early lettuce as well because it keeps me from picking the Kale so that gets a nice head start!
That's a good idea to take some lettuce that has been cut into another spot in the garden to grow again. (Is that what you were explaining ?)
That was a maze video clip you had dun there it was good to see it there 👍🥬🥬
This is a great video. I ❤️ lettuce!
What is that big leaf lettuce you are cutting leaves from toward the end? It’s beautiful and would prob be awesome for wraps.
This year I am trying Freckles Romaine and really like it for its beauty, crunch and flavor. I have Laitue du Bon Jardinier (A butterhead variety, I think) that has re-seeded all over my garden, which I mostly feed to my ducks because we can't keep up with it. It is a good filler, but not my favorite.
Thank you for the the lettuce growing tips. When you're finished with the lettuce do you just leave the roots in the ground to decompose or do you pull them up roots and all and then compost? Thank you!
Hi Ate, it depends a little - if I want to sow a following crop, I will usually remove the roots but when I'll be planting pre-sown plants, it is usually not necessary. Whenever possible it is good to leave roots in the ground :)
Excellent video. My favorite lettuce is called Merlot.
Thanks for the recommendation, Perry!
Very useful, thank you
Glad to hear that!
i purchased lettuce i have no clue what kind i'm all new to this gardening!!! I transpanted them into small containers i'm in NY what can i do to help them? I also got lots of very very young tomato plants and put them in 5 gallon buckets. What nutrients can i give all my veggies to grow in August here in NY
Thank you for showing how to keep harvesting. I wondered if you can advise how to grow over Winter. I am in the UK where it goes cold, do they need heat or will they just grow in the greenhouse in the cold over Winter?
Depending on where in the UK you are, your climate is probably pretty similar to ours. We grow lots of lettuce in the greenhouse in winter, which is never heated and they do well. The growth slows down in the middle of the winter but then picks back up in February. You can see some of the varieties we grow for winter in this video: ruclips.net/video/Mmi_4gf5MA4/видео.html
@@GrownToCook thank you for your reply. It is nice to be able to get great advice from someone in the know.
If needed try christmas lights when it's super cold to keep it from frost.
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Thanks so much for subscribing, Karen!
We love lettuce and so do slugs, who have eaten most of ours. Do you have any advice? You’ve inspired us to try again because your lettuce look gorgeous.
Thank you! Two things:1) encourage natural predators such as slugs (that's one of the reasons why we have a little pond) and hedgehogs, 2) use protective mulch slugs don't like to crawl over. In my experience, coffee grounds and cocoa shells as mulch help to prevent slug damage. Good luck!
GrownToCook thanks Vera. Good advice. We have a pond, so that's a good start and we are finding wool pellets work as a protective mulch. Also, watering the garden early morning rather than evening. We love your channel. We've created three Wildflowerech areas for pollinating insects. Vipers bugloss (Echium vulgare) is absolutely stunning and much loved by bumblebees. Happy gardening! 😊
Zo leerzaam. Super bedankt.👍
Hoe hou jij de slakken tegen?
Alles ziet er nog zo gaaf uit. We hebben zoveel slakken in onze tuin. Kleigrond. Wel op het zuiden.
En is boomschors niet een perfecte schuilplaats voor slakken?
Ik hoor daar verschillende meningen over. Of hangt dat van de grond af?
Zand of klei b.v.?
Dankjewel!
De paden zijn bedekt met houtsnippers. We hebben natuurlijk wel slakken in de tuin (zoals iedereen :)) maar het wordt nooit een al te groot probleem, vooral omdat we op verschillende manieren natuurlijke vijanden aantrekken. In de vijver zitten padden en kikkers, in de vakkenhoop een egel, in de mulch duizendpoten en loopkevers. Grappig: ik heb net deze week een stukje hierover geschreven voor mijn volgende boek!
I love the little gem lettuce, nice and crunchy! And freckles :)
Little Gem is one of my favs too!
I've been wondering which method gives more lettuce in the long run: leaf by leaf harvesting or cut & come again? Or is it about the same, and just a difference of getting lettuce little by little vs a smaller number of big harvests?
I have not weighed the harvest, so cannot be sure, but my hunch is that it might indeed be similar in regard to the space the plants occupy, but leaf-by-leaf is more spread out and you can keep picking longer
Thanks so much I like any
Thank you for a lot of really helpful info on lettuce. I also like to Read all the comments and your anwers because there is a lot of useful info in there as well.
I have an off topic question: where did you buy those spirals (for tomatoes I presume) we see in the background in some shots? I really like them!
Thank you, Pauline!! The tomato supports come from a local gardening store 'Welkoop' here in the Netherlands but my parents in the Czech Republic have them too, so I think they're available in many places? They are really very handy because you only need to 'weave' the stems around the support as the plants grow
This is my first year doing lettuce.
Yay! Hopefully first year of many :) What varieties are you growing?
Let us grow more lettuce!!
My lettuce seeds never germinate, I’m on year 2 of multiple batches of sowing. Do you have any tips for that? I’ve even tried to buy new seeds this year in case it was because I had a bad batch last year. :( thanks!
Not sure but a few thoughts: lettuce will not germinate if it's too warm (above 20 degrees Celsius) and you should only cover the seed very lightly after sowing. Do you sow directly or presow? It's easier to control the circumstances if you resow in a seed tray
I've had the same problem, and this works for me: Try pre-sprouting them before sowing. Put a wet paper towel in a dish or bowl, sprinkle the seeds on top, then cover the bowl. Ideally, you'd put the bowl somewhere warm, but with lettuce it doesn't seem to matter so much since it's a cool-weather crop. Keep the seeds moist but not drowned until they have germinated, and after they have you can plant them directly in the ground or into a seedling cup while they grow a bit before transplanting.
Great video, I love lettuce too 🤗 we grow a bunch of korean varieties in the "annual polyculture" you designed, but I'm afraid I can't remember their names 😂
So nice to hear you're growing the polyculture! How is it doing?
@@GrownToCook better than expected, in fact.. I have trouble keeping up with harvesting 😂 it's a bit overgrown at the moment, leaf mustards are finished but the lettuces are really taking off now 🤯
Where can i buy seeds, i want to try plants here in the phiilippines. Thank you.
Just start gardening growing lettuce thank for the great video like you I can eat lettuce ever day just transplant some romaine I have to build some shade cover got 1 meal of lettuce for family tasted great need more information on the soilPlus watering Super hot here in the West Indies
Smoothie ingrediants....Lettuce be happy and Healthy.
Thank you!
Wish I could post a pic of the lettuce I have growing. It was supposed to be iceberg but looks loose leaf. Real big dark green leaves. Looks romaine but not tight together.
We just finished cleaning up the lettuce since it had bluish grey bugs on some of the leaves, it rained for a few days so I though it was a fungus, but it was thrips or something, as the leaves with bugs were wilted, and put the collected leaves under the hot water dispenser. Apparently there was too high a concentration of lettuce in one spot and what's where they showed up.
Oh no! Maybe it would help to interplant lettuce with other things? I'll be planting a polyculture in one my beds where lettuce will be one of the seven or so veggies. Diversity helps against a lot of pest problems
The lettuce grew a lot faster than everything else, but yeah, I could stand to plant them a lot more sparsely, I was hoping the mesclun mix would count as several different things, since some of them are brassicas like cress. I was putting 1 wide leaf and one cress in each container, and all the rest in a couple extra planters, and both planters were set together, so that's where it got hit. Of course, the next problem will be summer heat cooking containers, so they will need to be dug into the ground soon.
Where did you find the seed for the Catalan and the Amish long leaf? In Holland?
De Nieuwe Tuin in Belgium has a great assortiment of lettuce!denieuwetuin.be/88-kropsla
How do you keep it fresh after harvesting? When I cut or pick it and go home it’s already withered and looking sad.
Someone taught me to wrap it up in a moist towel. And keep it in the fridge.
I wash the lettuce in a sink full of water as soon as I get home- if you let it stand for a bit even wilted leaves will usually perk up. And then I dry it in the lettuce spinner and either put the whole spinner in the fridge or put the leaves in a plastic bag and then in the fridge. It works really well!
@@GrownToCook This works!
Good video 👍lettuce is delicious
100% agree!
Great video thank you madam.
Thank you!
Ik vind kropsla wel lekkerder maar lukt mij vaak niet zo goed. Snijsla en pluksla lukken altijd en kan er lang van oogsten. Goede video, bedankt.
Dank je wel, Jan! Wat is het probleem met kropsla? Schiet het te snel door?
@@GrownToCook Eerst ben ik te zuinig met zaad wat ik koop. Na een paar jaar is de kiemkracht weg. En heb best last van te weinig groeikracht en dan doorschieten. Heb de verschillende snijsla en pluksla vorig jaar laten bloeien en zaad geoogst. Allemaal niet zo moeilijk. Helemaal geweldig met opkomst.
cool thansk for sharing
Glad you liked it!
Where do you buy the metal trellis from?
We made those ourselves following the excellent video tutorial by Patrick @oneyardrevolution: ruclips.net/video/9RPLtYpWkg8/видео.html
No luck growing lettuce in south Florida. I also don’t know how to keep them thriving once they sprout.
They are indeed not easy to grow in warm climates... Can you maybe provide a little shade? Do you have a cooler season when lettuce might be more successful?
I am from south florida, I have been growing lettuce, its possible. I mainly grow it because of my rabbit 😊
How do you keep pests away?
Well, there will always be some pests in an organic garden :) But I try to find balance, also encouraging predators: we have a pond for frogs that eat slugs and many plants that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies that eat aphids. There's also mulch of coffee grounds around the larger plants and this tends to discourage slugs too
I bought a mixture of lettuce seeds and discovered some new varieties, like devil's ears. Very graphic and beautiful. And as it's red, slugs don't like it.
A mix is a great way to try different varieties!
Wait, those lettuce can be in full sun??
Yes, but that probably depends on the climate. Also, it s a cool season crop, so I grow it mostly in spring/early summer and then towards the end of the season. And during the winter months I grow lettuce in our unheated greenhouse
@@GrownToCook ok, thank you! I just bought some lettuce and it says partly shady… I live in the south, so we have no “winter” 😅
i use your videos for improve my english. u speak with tongue and palate in russian. so i can understand your words easily