How to grow Lettuce from Seed to Harvest. See how I grow lettuce at home, while I share with you the history of lettuce and how it has been grown and used in past civilizations. Lettuce has a fascinating history.
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0:00 Introduction – Lettuce is not boring.
1:20 Botanical introduction of Lettuce. What are lettuces related to?
1:45 Sowing Lettuce indoors Introduction.
2:18 Old-fashioned direct seeding of lettuce outdoors.
2:36 Plate-germination method for pre-germinating lettuce seeds indoors.
3:10 How Lettuce was used in Egypt.
4:53 Tips for pre-germinating lettuce seeds with the paper-towel method.
6:20 Lettuce in Egyptian mythology
7:18 How Greeks and Romans used lettuce
7:54 Plate-germination method continued.
9:52 Roman Emperors and Lettuce – Pertinax in Historia Augusta
11:15 Transplanting the pre-germinated lettuce seeds into cups.
12:28 Why lettuce seeds need light to germinate. Photodormant
13:28 How 19th century gardeners planted lettuce in hot frames during winter.
14:34 How romans gave salad its name.
15:30 Growing Lettuce seedlings under indoor lights,
16:27 The hidden-dangers of lettuce
17:37 Hardening off lettuce seedlings to outside conditions
19:06 Medieval monks and lettuce
19:53 Planting lettuce seedling
21:26 Plautilla Nelli and lettuce in the monastic renaissance diet of Europe
23:34 Protecting lettuce from potential late frosts.
25:28 First tasting
26:25 The story of M. D’abignac, the Gentleman Salad maker
29:22 Harvesting Lettuce and preparing a salad
33:39 Conclusion – The biochemistry of lettuce
36:05 When lettuce bolts – the end
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