Calling all leaf-munching, salad-snaffling lettuce lovers! We know you’re out there, longing for luscious leaves of lovely lettuce. We hear you! This week, Ben reveals his top tips for growing your very own long lasting supply of lip smacking, pest-defying, super salads. Lettuce begin!
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Thank you for the video
You can plant lettuce at any time. For instance, I just planted my Romaine lettuce. But because the hot weather is coming, I planted them under the shade of a Maple tree. The shade will keep them cool during the hot weather.
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Why r u eating me??!!
Why have and timesed me by 69 !!!
Explain
Hi. Newbie grower here. I know this video is a good few months old but I’m looking for advice. I don’t have anyone around me who knows. My family think I’m made for growing ‘go to the shops’ is their attitude. Anyway. I’ve attempted iceberg lettuce but there is a weird green slime type stuff on them. It washes off but I’ve tried to Google info but nothing is helping. Can anyone help me with this, what is it? Why is it there? How can I prevent it? Is the lettuce no good now? Thank you 🙏🏻 😊🥬
Great channel my friend thank you.
great vid, grand rapids lettuce on the go atm, slow grower but massive, also red oak and cos
Hi. Here in Napier New Zealand I grow or more correctly allow to grow a self sowing plant known locally as Miners/Mynahs Lettuce. Once you allow it to seed it reappears each winter and spring. Since I realised how easily lettuces will perpetuate themselves I’ve always allowed my other lettuce varieties to flower and seed. Buying or sowing lettuce seeds or plants is almost a thing of the past. When the new plants appear, all over the garden, just transplant them to where you want to them to develop. I love your entertaining and informative videos and great suggestions.
How far to plant them apart from each other
The beer remedy also attracts raccoons. After they finish off the beer they dig up the lettuce looking for more!
Nice.
I'm just about to invest in a veg trug and would like to grow lettuce butter leaf is this possible in the trug ? and all salad produce.
How do you know when it's time to use the produce,tell tale signs or is it just the way the vegetables look…..sorry,complete novice here.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Perhaps leave a few bolted plants in place to feed pollinators? At least that is what they suggest on Gardener's World.
yummy
Ahh, The mighty lettuce, lasted longer than liz truss and tastes amazing.
I’m drawing Ruby leaf lettuce and butternut head lettuce and black Simpson seed lettuce . Can I grow them together? My Name is Tom
The slugs come to a sticky ( but probably happy) ending ROFL 🤣
You could find them hiding out, use a catapult to fire them four doors down, perhaps?
I'm on the Northern coast of BC 🇨🇦 (zone 7b) and am starting to realize that my lettuce methods last growing season while fairly productive (didn't buy lettuce for about 3 months while having a big salad with dinner a few times a week) could definitely be better!
Thanks for the info 👍
Up my lettuce growing game 😊
Cheers Ben some good tips
Why not just start them in small cells ?
Just discovered your page, binging like crazy! Love your content
I've seeded romaine, little gems, lambs lettuce. I've bought a hoop and net system this year so 🤞 nothing eats them this year
Green ones
I love the crispiness of Lollo Rossa. And at €2 a pop in the supermarkets these days, they're definitely worth having a go at at home.
i have not been able to grow lettuces as of yet .. but i hope this year to be different .. i will keep trying
Nicely explained thank you
i like growing many many types of lettuce and having a mixed bag of leafs. Wonderful crisp leaves all year long! we just started to hvest them this year! And we cant of planted them that long ago.
Great to control slugs with beer traps, but always put the edge of the trap slightly proud of the soil – ground beetles are a natural predator of slugs, and can accidentally fall into the traps too if they are at ground level. Giving them an obstacle means the beetles will go round the trap, as they're not attracted to beer, but the slugs will still be lured in.
Thank you for your enjoyable class on growing lettuce. I learned a lot and will start tomorrow!
Never had much luck with direct sowing lettuce here in southeastern US. But now I think I will try planting in pots until they are well developed. And try the companion plants once they are in the ground. Alyssum, who knew???
Thanks for the tips!
Can I ask when I was a child my Dad used to grow lettuce that you could eat a leaf at a time and it would regrow giving a continuous supply. What I would like to know is that particular to a particular type of lettuce, or any lettuce.
Thank you
I have never had success with lettuce as it’s always bolted so going to give some of these tips a try this year. Thanks Ben
How do we know 4 weeks in advance that there will be the last frost ? Mystic Meg perhaps ?
I’ve become addicted to 2 lettuces. Nevada & Green Star. I get pelleted seed, so I can plant the seeds pre-spaced & I don’t have to thin out my row. When storing my lettuce, I wash it & put it thru a salad spinner first, pop it into a zip lock bag & blow it up like a balloon before storing it in the salad crisper. I thought of this a few years ago & it actually works! Plants take it carbon dioxide. We exhale carbon dioxide. So, when I blow into the bag, I’m actually giving the lettuce what it needs to stay healthy. Only works with green leafy vegetables, tho. Lettuces, spinach & basil are my most frequently used crops. Try it! Your lettuce will stay fresh much longer!!
lettuce, plural .. lettuce , unless you speak hobbit, golem or Simplified American English , then you would incorrectly say lettuces.
Sproutses, peases, carrotses, swedeses.
Just more exampleses of doubles pluralses.
Other than my inexplicable Professor Of Correct English Shall Be Applied To Lettuce No Matter What Award , I tend to grow many different lettuce in pots, containers, any spare space in my raised beds and in seed pots ready to take the place of a harvested crop.
It's good to succession sow lettuce as the harvest for even cut-and-come-again varieties are not all spring/summer long.
This was so wonderful to see. I am so glad I found you!! lol Very nice instruction and LOTS of very helpful information.
I am attempting to research what I could do in my kitchen (We rent a flat, upstairs, no access to any greenhouse, our balcony isn't usable, it's going to have to be secluded TO the kitchen against the wall just beneath/beside the kitchen windows.
I have been looking into raised bed/containers, grow lights. I am Eager to try. I don't know yet if or how I'll proceed, so I came here to find more information!
Thank you!!
You do so much wrong I don’t know where to begin!!!!!!!
Please do not watch this guy you will have problems
This is my first year growing lettuces. I am starting with loose leaf lettuce and romaine lettuce. 😊🤞💗
great video, very helpful. you seem like an awesome gardener!
Greetings from France and your newest subscriber!
What do Americans call lettuce?
For the first time ever I managed to grow some Buttercrunch lettuce this year. I planted in late January. Protecting from our North Texas ice storms provided plenty of challenge, but I manage to grow a number of the Buttercrunch and Red Romaine variety from the seedlings purchased from a local feed store. It is early May and I have just harvested the last of the Buttercrunch. I'll be growing this again for certain. Not certain if growing this into the winter will work her but I'm going to try. It can remain in the 80degree Fahrenheit range into December.
I live in Western Massachusetts and my plan with lettuce this year is to grow it on my back deck in a shady spot during the hot months.
Wow 10 months ago i put a comment in and it is May – I have wonderful lettuce everywhere this year. I started them in a cold frame and then the tunnel and after that outside – so pleased. Cold so far this year – started off with a soft lettuce and then a variety called Black Simpson loads to eat!!