SprigOfTheLivingDead
Garden Addicted
It all boils down to these questions:
Both in summer and winter I normally grow peppers and tomatoes, you know, plants that just keep producing and producing and aren't necessarily single use. However, this winter i tried growing some lettuce and though I liked the end product for a couple of salads I found you couldn't just harvest a leaf or two as if you messed up on watering and a leaf burned it could potentially lead to rot, ... And the plant essentially reaches the end of its cycle after two months or so and is shooting to produce seeds.
So, for those of you that are growing lettuce for a family how many plants do you have going at a given time and do you harvest the whole plant or just cut the leaves off and harvest from the same plant for a few months?
I'm not familiar with lettuce so this is new to me. I'm curious if I should trying to have a rotation going where I put new seeds to soil every month or 3 weeks to make sure I'm able to just harvest 3 full plants for a salad when we want it.
- How many lettuce plants are the right amount?
- Do you keep germinating and planting more over the course of a season?
Both in summer and winter I normally grow peppers and tomatoes, you know, plants that just keep producing and producing and aren't necessarily single use. However, this winter i tried growing some lettuce and though I liked the end product for a couple of salads I found you couldn't just harvest a leaf or two as if you messed up on watering and a leaf burned it could potentially lead to rot, ... And the plant essentially reaches the end of its cycle after two months or so and is shooting to produce seeds.
So, for those of you that are growing lettuce for a family how many plants do you have going at a given time and do you harvest the whole plant or just cut the leaves off and harvest from the same plant for a few months?
I'm not familiar with lettuce so this is new to me. I'm curious if I should trying to have a rotation going where I put new seeds to soil every month or 3 weeks to make sure I'm able to just harvest 3 full plants for a salad when we want it.