In this video, I share 3 lettuce growing tips to grow tons of lettuce all year long in nearly any climate! After years of growing lettuce, I’ve learned that most people are doing it wrong. These three growing lettuce tips will turn lettuces from a seasonal treat to year-round abundance!
Whether you’re in a hot climate or a cold climate, or whether you’re growing lettuce in raised beds, in earth beds or growing lettuce in containers, these tips can help you be successful and extend your growing season.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction To Growing Lettuce Year Round
1:24 Three Critical Lettuce Growing Tips
1:52 Tip #1: Selecting Lettuce Varieties For The Season
5:07 Tip #2: Warming Lettuces During Winter
8:26 Tip #3: Hot Weather Lettuces And Shade Cloth
12:13 Adventures With Dale
If you have questions about how to grow lettuce year round, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and “garden hacks” like this, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!
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24 Comments
I found giant Caesar lettuce seeds! But is July too late to plant seeds? I’m in NC too!
What winter lettuce do you recommend for -40 F ?
I get lettuce 5 months a year and think it’s pretty good ?
Excellent info! Thank you!
6b here and this year , its July 4, in early June I put a cardboard roof over my lettuces, it gets early east sun, covered in hottest part of day and next to my house so no west sun. They are all doing fine so far
Thank you for a great video. However, I live in zone 5 and by December or January we can be consistently down below zero at night and sometimes stay below zero during the day as well. In January it's not uncommon for us to have -20 degree nights and not much warmer in the day time, with 6 to 12 inches of snow on top of that, so I doubt this would work here in our harsh winters. But we could get through much of November using your technique.
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I live on the East Coast as well in North Carolina, probably about 20 miles inland from the coast. I cannot grow lettuce from pretty much the end of June till I do a fall planting in August. They just will not grow. In the end of February every year I plant romaine And a few other varieties and they grow through almost the middle of June before they start bolting.
Awesome video.!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge..!!
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Your delivery is honest and excellent.
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You cannot grow GOOD tender lettuce all year around. Winter lettuce is like old boot leather 🤮
I love all kinds of lettuce! Thanks for all your helpful hints!
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Thanks! Great video. I can't get the Romaine to make a head. Any suggestions?
Excellent information, as a lifelong gardener, I must admit to having hit or miss results with a variety of lettuce strains, greatly these tips!
Awesome info – thanks so much!
Wow your information was so helpful. I live in the Caribbean and always wanted to grow Romaine, now I will invest in that shade cloth you talked about. I always how is it that on of the biggest producers of lettuce is in Arizona and last time I checked Arizona is like a desert ; and deserts are Hot????? and I saw their farms and their are no shade cloth there….lol🤣 I am not seeing the link to your shade cloth though????
Near Tampa here. 9b. I've been gardening forever and always quit the lettuce in June. I never thought to consider the variety! Love this about gardening, it's a never-ending university.
I love this! Thank you!
I am is southern California when do I start my lettuce its September 1 and I just planted different lettuces in insert trays and have them all sitting on the patio table I usually start my plants indoors but I wants to try it outside this time and I want to plant them in grow bags
Had zero luck with lettuce this year. Not a single seed germinated. Tried several varieties. Zero luck with spinach also. Try again next year. Thanks for the video and ideas.
Informative and very enlightening!! It's Sept 20th ,2022 and I'm growing about 10 romaine transplants I purchased 2 weeks ago locally here in zone 7. They're doing wonderfully…this time around due to the shade cloth I've been using during the hotter days. Now that I know why I was unsuccessful this past June, I feel much better about this 2nd go round!! I just started gardening this past May and was only disappointed with the lettuce. Knowledge is power…applied….even more so!! Now I'll be more conscious of the variety I'm buying each season!! Thank you ever so much!! You made my day!! Abundance and increase like never before to you and yours !!
As always a great video with lots of helpful information. We are near Pinehurst so planting lettuce now sounds fantastic!
What do u suggest to keep worms n caterpillars off your plants ? Thank you! You give great information;
Thanks!