Lettuce
Lactuca sativa
Journals (369)
Where does it grow?
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Day 0
Sown: Sown
Sown into a window-box with a few other lettuce varieties, with the aim to transplant into garden beds when they’ve got some size on them.This entry is about Glittertrash's Lettuce "Gwenda White" in the Nunnery Vegetable garden.
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Day 0
Sown: Sown
Planted half a window-box with seeds of this lettuce, which so far has been my favourite of all my lettuce types. Popped an up-turned plastic food container over them to try to provide a little ‘greenhouse’ to warm the soil and encourage germination- as per a technique encouraged on t...This entry is about Glittertrash's Lettuce "Purple Oak Leaf" in the Nunnery Vegetable garden.
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Day 6
Sprouting: Sprouting slowly
They came up a bit slower than the rest of the lettuce varieties I planted for fall. It’s not terribly hot… not sure why they were so pokey. But they are up, nonetheless.This entry is about Wenjomatic's Leaf Lettuce in the Back Fence Garden garden.
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Day 6
Sprouting: sprouted
Seeds are up!This entry is about Wenjomatic's Romaine from JoJoSmiley in the Back Fence Garden garden.
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Day 212
I left one of these plants to go to seed- the rest have been pulled up now. I’m quite into the idea of having things like lettuce self-seed themselves in my garden, and the seed-stalk lettuce plant isn’t taking up too much room.
This entry is about Glittertrash's Lettuce "Purple Oak Leaf" in the Nunnery Vegetable garden.
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Day 178
Harvesting: Pretty perfect
This has been pretty perfect throughout the summer. It hardly bolted, it was just growing a bit thin and tough. So I decided to pick the last leaves and sow some mache for fall.This entry is about Annet's Salad mix 'Vreeken' in the 'Veggie' Raised Bed & Pond garden.
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Day 3
Sprouting: Roots Are Sprouting Out
This entry is about Fern's Salad Bowl Lettuce in the Fern's Long Beach Patio garden.
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Day 0
Sown: Sown
This entry is about Verthandei's Lettuce 'Pot and Patio' in the Balcony garden.
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Day 14
See more sprouts coming up. I had no idea that lettuce was so slow to grow. Some have died already, maybe because of slugs. I found one in the pot last Friday. I can’t believe that it crawled up the side of the patio, then up the side of the container, and then into the container. How did i...
This entry is about Jwolff's Lettuce in the Patio garden.
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Day 9
Sprouting: sprouts
This entry is about Planting Oaks's Lettuce 'Lolla Rosa' in the Vegetable garden.
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