Head lettuce is the only lettuce to chop. You simply have to know when it’s proper to take action! The maturity date will rely upon the variability. Your seed packet ought to say how lengthy it takes till it’s prepared to reap to offer you some indication.
As a basic rule of thumb, you wish to harvest when the lettuce continues to be agency. Take a pointy knife and punctiliously lower the entire head of lettuce off. You’ll wish to lower the top of the lettuce on the stem.
This speckled lettuce was featured in my Decorative Edibles Seed Assortment.
Harvesting Minimize-and-Come-Once more Lettuce
Minimize-and-come-again lettuce is my most popular methodology of rising lettuce. I sometimes develop my lettuce in a wine barrel to maintain out the slugs!
Minimize-and-come-again lettuce sometimes contains your leafy greens. You solely harvest among the leaves fairly than the entire head directly, so you will have a unending provide of the greens. This makes it one of the vital worthwhile and most cost-effective greens to develop.
Take a pair of sharp scissors and begin with the outermost leaves. The outer leaves are the oldest; in case you depart the rosette within the middle, it can proceed rising. Minimize the outer leaves on the base after they’re mid-size.
Backyard Remedy Decorative Edibles Seed Assortment Lettuces
This lettuce was lower proper on the leaf’s base with out chopping the remaining leaves’ stem.
This lettuce will final you some time, however ultimately, you have to to reap all of it. Sprinkle new lettuce seeds on prime of the soil the place you harvested them. Utilizing an umbrella greenhouse may help the seeds develop extra rapidly.
Harvesting lettuce this fashion additionally prevents the plant from bolting. You’re forcing the vitality to go in the direction of rising the leaves once more fairly than flowering.
Simply know that it takes plenty of vitality for the leaf to make these new leaves, so ensure you have fertile soil (like including compost) to maintain it energized.
