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Growing lettuce in containers

 Growing lettuce 



Lettuce is a favorite of many vegetable gardeners and forms the basis of many salads and vegetable dishes around the world. Growing lettuce is relatively easy and I am going to talk here about some tips to help you get started. Cold weather (but not too cold) can promote the growth of lettuce. Monitor the climate in which you live and make decisions accordingly. For example, in Malta (lettuce is called "ħass"), early spring can be a good time to plant lettuce in pots or containers. Of course, it is possible to grow lettuce directly in the ground, where they will grow large.


The advantage of planting in a container is that you can carefully monitor the growth of the vegetable and move the pot depending on how the weather develops. Growing in pots or containers will help keep snails or snails away from your spinach.


Lettuce roots are shallow, and small pot lettuce and its desired growth. As discussed in previous articles, vegetables and plants in containers often need water because they dry out quickly. Therefore, if you are accustomed to growing vegetables directly in the ground, a change of mind is needed to successfully grow lettuce in containers.



Lettuce usually grows from seed to harvest very quickly within 45 to 55 days. Because of this, the soil does not need much fertilizer, especially if the lettuce is planted using potting soil mixed with nutrients.


If you sow the seeds, you can scatter the seeds in the soil without paying much attention to each other at intervals. Alternatively, you can carefully plant lettuce seedlings at intervals to allow for growth. For example, I got some lettuce seedlings from a local garden center. To give each lettuce room to grow, I decided to plant a seedling in a pot.


You can fill the pot or container with about 90% of a good pot mix or light soil and then make a hole in the soil using a finger (you can wear horticultural gloves), which will look like a seed ball of seedlings.


When it is done, put the seedlings with roots at the bottom and add a little more soil, and cover as needed. Make sure the roots of the plant are well covered with soil. After that, water the vegetables to keep the roots in the new home of the plant strong.



Once the lettuce has grown satisfactorily, the whole plant can be taken out or some of the leaves can be cut off from each plant, and the rest of the plant, especially the middle, can be harvested. If it is not too hot, lettuce will grow more until flowering. At this point, lettuce is too bitter to use in salads.


The advantage of lettuce is that it is easy to grow and fresh lettuce from your garden will always be tastier than any lettuce you can buy from a supermarket. As long as you are planting lettuce in cool weather rather than summer, lettuce should work well in your garden.

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