How To Grow Infinite Amounts of Cut and Come Again Lettuce
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Learn how to continue harvesting lettuce again and again during the harvest season! ___________________________________________________________________________________________
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This guy has done more to improve my gardening than any other UA-camr. Amazing info packed into EVERY video. Thank you!!!! Big fan!😊
Me too! I credit all my garden success to Luke! I literally learned how to garden from MiGardener
I’ve got 6 17 gallon tubs on my porch growing 3 lettuces, 5 Asian greens, celery, spinach, & Swiss chard, in the cool, after I’ll put in summer crops.
I was letting my 3 year old granddaughter help plant some lettuce and she was not careful about where the seeds went. She kept saying "salad is my favorite food!", which it is. It will be fun to harvest what she has planted. Everything all mixed together. Salad bowl!
Game changer! I've been cutting ONE LEAF AT A TIME. Thanks, Luke, for showing us a better way. I immediately went to my lettuce bed to efficiently harvest a bowl of salad.
I do cut and come again, and my romaine just keeps growing.
So I did it wrong, but my way was working too. Maybe even better. I just took some of the outer leaves. 1 or 2 of every plant is enough for me, because these leafs are the biggest. This way I could harvest every day or every other day for at least 2 months in a row and don't have to wait for weeks till it grows back. The salads will eventually grow upward and develop some kind of stem.
You're not doing it wrong, just another way!
That's the way I've always done it too. Luke's way is more efficient, but I do see a lot of green left to die off. If it's outside, I feel like that's inviting disease and pests. I could be wrong though.
I have raised beds and I’ve always done the harvest by cutting the outer leaves as I’ve needed…it has worked wonderfully well! I think I might try a couple of grow bags to harvest Luke’s method and see how it goes!
This is my preferred method also. I grow at least 5 different varieties and have a mixed greens salad every day for the season. Gardening for one is a totally different ball game.
Been doing the same for many years. Works for me.
Since watching your video from a few years ago I've grown cut and come again lettuce every year since. It's the video when you demonstrated cut & come again by direct sowing seed outdoors in rows. I take care to vary the varieties in each of the rows so they will contrast one another in both color and texture, the result is both beautiful & delicious!
I've grown leaf lettuce so I could do this, never knew I could do that with the other types of lettuce!!!! Thanks for the tip!!!
Thanks Luke!
I've harvested by just taking the outer leaves but this is more efficient. 🙂
Blessings! 💚
I do the same, only 2 of us to feed so really don't need tons :)
I've always done it this way too. It's more efficient Luke's way, but I do see a fair bit of green left to die off. I think if it's outside, that'd be asking for disease. I could be wrong though
Great tips as always! Thank you!
Thanks for the tips on lettuce! Luke
I love learning something new every day. This I definitely needed to know. Thank you!
Thank you as always Luke, you are so appreciated! 🙏🙏🙏
One of your best videos.
Well you just made me very happy! Here I`ve been doin it by taking just lower leaves. I`ve been fortunate to grow it all year round here in SC... in the shade & under lightweight frost cover all year. Now I can grow even more & sowing seeds every week or 2! Thank you..I learn something new with all your videos! :)
I really appreciate you circling back to this topic. I have watched your other videos on this topic but there were some things I didn’t understand fully - like how much you need to plant and long long you can cut and come again if you are two people and you want to eat a meal sized salad 3x a week.
Thank you for clarifying and showing this method. I will definitely be trying this in my garden this year. 😊
Great sharing, thanks your tip.
Great info. Thank you so much,
Awesome video!!
This is the best! I did this last year and it was amazing! I have so many seeds for this year because I didn’t have to keep sowing! Thanks so much for all the tips!
Thank you for sharing your experience with us on your channel. I am getting back into gardening and doing it using fabric pots with peas. I may do some lettuce 🥬 after watching this video. Btw, I am in zone 8a.
I have been cutting like this, I followed you in another video doing this. Reminders are always a help.
All of your videos are awesome!!! I've been gardening for many many years but I learn something from every amazing video!!!
This is really cool! I hate thinning plants so I'll take any excuse not to thin my lettuce :D Can you do this with spinach and kale too? I eat a lot more spinach than anything else, and this would be great.
Perfect timing on this video. Thanks!!!
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Excellent! Liked and subscribed so I don’t miss great info!
Another banger, very important video right there
First,yes love your videos and look forward to each new one!
So, I was cutting mine too short last year, thanks, Lucas!
Very good advice
Have been taking leaves from the outside at the base. Will try this new method this year.
Thanks MI!
I’m so glad I watched this! Someone told me to pick the outside leaves and tear them at the stalk, so I kept ending up with “leggy” greens. I’ll be cutting from now on, thanks!
Yup, I started growing lettuce indoors this winter and, in spite of only having a few, I got more leaves than I could eat. As an experiment I put half the plants outdoors in cloches. In spite of some sub-zero temps they survived and are now even more successful; I’m blown way! 🥬🍾❤️
I'm so glad you demonstrated this. I was taking leaves from the outside, but then the inside leaves would grow too big and become bitter. Also, I never thought of using a knife to cut the lettuce with. Thank you for the info! Have a great day!
Love the new graphics!
I hope to get some different lettuce and greens going once I get our new garden built…or might just start growing in containers.
Red romaine lettuce is my favorite lettuce to grow and I grown as a cut-and-come-again lettuce. I peel the outer leaves off as the plants get bigger and by mid summer i've got tall lettuce stalks in my garden
I NEEDED TO KNOW THIS. THANKS
LOVE IT ❤ thanks 🥰
Fantastic idea thank you
Really is! Just harvest tall enough to not impede plant growth!
Good video. This method would be ideal for apartment dwellers too.
Nice. A youtuber that has something new to offer, a rare occurence
I grow lettuce in my greenstalk containers an only harvest the amount I need, which might only be a few leaves from each of my 15 plants. Just feeding 2 people.
More like MLG Gardner. Ty for the content!
(Zone 5) Just planted my lettuce varieties and spinach. I'll have lettuce until the ground freezes again at year's end. Onions next! I love this time of year!
Do you keep them in part shade during the hot summer months?
Are you direct sowing or transplanting out some you started indoors? Do you use a hoop house or row cover to protect them and warm the soil a little?
I'm wanting to plant some peas lettuce and spinach outside but there are still many nights below freezing in zone 5b/6.
@@bloomwhereyoureplantedgard41 No, I plant cold-tolerant varieties in April as soon as we've had daytime temps in the upper 40s/low 50s, summer varieties in mid to late May, and cold tolerant varieties again around the 3rd week of August.
@@TheMistyBlueLounge Mainly, I direct sow with more in my Greenstalk. I plant only cold tolerant varieties in April. (lettuces: Winter Marvel, Green Forest, Monte Carlo, Winter Density, Merlot, Dragoon, Waldman's Green, etc. - spinach: Bloomsdale, Winter Giant)
Wonderful thank you!
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You look beautiful😍 if you don't mind me saying I'm Leonard Smith ☺ if I may ask where are you from?
my favorite salad lettuce
I have a bowl of lettuce in the sunroom coming up now. I will be planting a second container soon.
Great video! I bought a bunch of your seeds and loooove them!!!!! Are there any varieties of lettuce that you can’t cut & come again? Besides romaine or the lettuce you grow for big leaves like you stated?
Hey Luke, thank you!
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You look beautiful😍 if you don't mind me saying I'm Leonard Smith ☺ if I may ask where are you from?
I'd suggest a part 2 to this video. "So You've Cut a Lot of Lettuce. Now What?" If you want to keep it a few days, do you wash it now or right before using? Do you refrigerate in containers, paper bags, plastic? I've had lots of success with the "Cut" stage but not so much on the "Storage" stage.
Hey Luke, can you do cut and come again with a hydroponic set up?
Thanks Luke. I was doing it correctly but I would sometimes go to low and didn’t understand why that particular variety was a problem. It wasn’t the plant it was me! 😢.
I love lettuce
Does this work with arugula or mustard greens? Thanks for this video too! My lettuces are growing now and will try this when I harvest.
I'm going to do this in my Greenstalk.
I didn't realize you could grow the lettuce so closely together. What size container are you using? Approximately how many plants in a container that size? Thanks for the video!
This is so cool!
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You look beautiful😍 if you don't mind me saying I'm Leonard Smith ☺ if I may ask where are you from?
Hey Luke! How does someone continue growing lettuce through the summer when temps are really hot? Shade? Will they grow under a shade cloth?
I have always done this. Never understood harvesting the whole plant. But I just rip off the outside leafs on multiple plants. I'll try this way this year along side my method and see which I like.
I was thinking about doing this in pots and when it gets hotter out to move pots in a shadier spot or indoors
Video starts at 5:10
I planted Lettuce last year and it survived the winter zone 5. It never died. Even with temps in the single digits. I'm amazed.
Did you bring it inside? Fellow 5th zoner here
It would be cool if you offered a lettuce bundle.
If you are direct sowing the seeds, how close would you put them? Or do you just sprinkle them randomly and let them do their own thing? Does cut and come again harvesting work for spinach as well?
I live in Wisconsin how early can I plant lettuce , you said early spring , just wondering when would be best to plant lettuce
Thank you that was very helpful
What kind of soil or garden mix do you use in these buckets?
So, at what temps will it be game over for the bucket of lettuce? I've started some by Winter Sowing, and they are soon to be put into their forever pots. It seems to be heating up quickly in Metro Detroit! Just wondering how long they will last before bolting?
How fast do they grow? If I had like 3 bowls would that be enough in between cuttings? Do I need to use the fiber pots are my extra plastic shurb pots ok to use?
This is a timely video for me, because I planted some Arugula and Romaine and have no clue what I'm doing. 🤣
Can you do this in beds and use a quick cut green harvester?
In your video when you transplanted these into the greenhouse you said lettuce doesn't like wet soil, but in this one you say it likes damp soil. Which is it? Just curious. I normally grow it in outdoor conditions with no problem in my area but I'm also considering a greenhouse option for more in the coldest winter months we have.
Can you also perform this method with cilantro and other herbs? I always let my cilantro go too long :(
How long does it take for lettuce seeds to germinate outside? Its been pretty cold with highs in the 40 and 50s and low near freezing.
can you grow inside your house during the winter?
Does this method help prevent bolting?
Is there a variety of lettuce that will have more crunch, when growing this way?
What’s the best type of soil for lettuce? I’m a newbie🥴
My weather says it's going to be mid 70s this weekend. I'm going to cut mine all down before it seeds 😊😊
You can also use shade cloth (or similar) to also keep them from bolting as well. People do this on purpose for pre-last frosts' for many tropic plants and trees from budding and it's works QUITE well. Particularly if the containers/fabrics are well breathing and/or light colored to make sure they stays cooler during these heat waves.
@@rickytorres9089 thank you! I need some friends like you to pick their brain 😆
@@Avram1919 Aww, you are so much always welcome! :)
Can the lettuce be grown in a growing bag throughout the summer?
Can you do this with spinach??
I pinch off a few outer leaves with my thumbnail every day for my daily salad.
Luke, what happens with the short piece of leaf left ( not the crown) behind ?
My guesses is that it will provides to the plant until it dies back from dehydration of being partly cut back.
I was wondering how often should you water Lettuce a week, I used to water mine everyday and soak it and I think I messed them up because the outter lettuce would get brown and die and there was no signs of bugs or anything eating the plants.
How soon can you start this process in a greenhouse? And how long can you grow in a greenhouse? My grandsons school has an unused greenhouse 😉
As soon as the leaves are grown out enough to warrant a harvest like he is showing.
I have been trying to grow lettuce for a year now and can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. I have tried different seeds, different seed brands, different soil types, etc etc and they never get taller than microgreens. The leaves - my radish microgreens have bigger leaves. The lettuce just reaches a certain point and stops growing. They’re getting plentiful sun, soil is kept nice and moist. I even tried “greenhouse” style with a gallon jug and that didn’t work either. Would welcome any suggestions that maybe I haven’t tried.
I can’t seem to grow lettuce. The seeds start but don’t continue to grow. I’m in the PNW so not due to too much heat.
Can you grow lettuce like that indoors under a grow light and harvest it indoors?
You can indeed, they will however bolt after about 60 days depending on the setup though. So ideally if you can you can cycle them outsides for pollinators to enjoy and/or to harvest/drop seeds.
@@rickytorres9089 Thanks
@@CookingLessonsforDad You are so much always welcome. :)
What is the best way to water? I am growing in grow bags and my lettuce looks like this video. But with the plants packed so close I can't get a "toehold" to water the soil underneath. Do you water over the top or bottom water? When I try to bottom water a grow bag it doesn't seem to work very well or is just really slow.
I bottom water my grow bags! Sit them in a tub of some sort, or even a kiddie pool. As long as they haven't gotten bone dry, and they hold potting mix and not soil, they should wick the water up!
Hello!
I'm in Georgia. In the fall I got two pumpkins that were getting rotten, dug a ditch in my garden, smashed the pumpkins as you did in your video, covered them up and waited. I thought I dug deep enough for them not to sprout, but I think they are coming up now. I don't really want pumpkins as they take up too much space. Even if I keep a few on them, i don't want ALL the ones that seem to be coming up.
What did I do wrong?
Thanks!
I would just thin them out to the amount you want while they're still young.
Does anyone know how deep the soil has to be for this type of growth?
Can you buy lettuces and grow that way too?
Rouge d'hiver xD your pronunciation was so funny. It is french so it is normal you pronounce it like it was in english.
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You look beautiful😍 if you don't mind me saying I'm Leonard Smith ☺ if I may ask where are you from?
What's the pros and cons of doing cut and come again by cutting the top off vs. harvesting the outside leaves? I have done harvesting outside leaves and it seems to benefit the plants by giving them room to grow as well as giving you larger in tact leaves each harvest.
I've always picked off the outer leaves, but I also was having to plant lettuce super close together to keep the soil shaded (Texas, even January can have 90 degree days). When plants are crowded that can be a pain. This looks much easier.
@@elisabetk2595 Same here. It does look easier. I was wondering about the water loss/trauma from all of open surface where it was cut.
PSA:
slipped with knife and almost needed stitches, really sharp knife, going to get kevlar glove(s) for left hand.
I heard that you can't cut and come again with spinach, i do it all the time, if i can keep the chickens from getting to the pots.
or use scissors
@@CL-ty6wp been using scissors, Got a razor knife for slicing micro greens and it was at hand. and at thumb in my case.
I do cut and come again with spinach. I prefer the young leaves.
Agree use good scissors instead. Use one hand to hold the leaves bunched up then SAFELY cut underneath.
@@DebWHNP That's awesome, I didn't know you can do that with them particularly with them saying they heard it's not possible.
How deep are roots on an iceberg lettuce? Can you transplant seedlings? Thank you!
Most leafy greens DO transplant well, some people blanket and density sow on purpose so they can always have transplants "at the ready". Because they will stay in like a semi-dormant even preventing bolting to some extents.
Every time I grow cut & come again my lettuce grows in soo leggy
sorry i needed all this but i didnt utilize your very useful lecture videos SORRY!!! very good videos for a garden actual user!!!