Instructions for Cultivating Salad Greens in a Potted Setup
Harvesting Oak-Leaved Lettuces for Autumn Salads 🍃
Ready to savor those crisp autumn salads with freshly grown salad leaves? Here's a simple guide to growing oak-leaved lettuces, perfect for those containers, following gardening guru Monty Don.
Let's talk 'Salad Bowl' lettuce—an easy-peasy, container-friendly choice. Ready to learn how many seeds to sow and what type of compost you need? Stick around!
🌱Sowing SeedsDirectly sow seeds into well-prepared soil or containers, maintaining about 4.5 inches (11 cm) between each row, and thinning seedlings to around 1 inch (2.5 cm) apart as they grow. For smaller plots, scatter multiple rows (like 10 in a 4-foot bed) to ensure a constant supply and plenty of harvestable leaves. Remember, overcrowding can lead to disease, so handle those seedlings with care!
Enrich your home-and-garden lifestyle by incorporating Salad Bowl lettuces, an ideal choice for containers, following the guidelines provided by gardening guru Monty Don. To ensure a plentiful harvest, be sure to sow seeds directly into prepared soil or containers, maintaining sufficient space between each row and seedlings as they grow.
