Growing lettuce indoors is a gardening project you can do even in the cold winter season.
Growing lettuce indoors in winter.
I really love the gourmet mesclun mix for a tasty salad.
Some varieties are known to grow well in winter light such as arctic king winter marvel and winter density.
Sweet tender baby lettuce leaves must grow fast to maintain their good qualities.
And if you are like me then this is great news because i hate being forced to buy veggies from the store during winter months.
If you don t have a location that receives continuous sunlight make sure you place it in a location that gets at least 8 hours of sun a day.
Yes this means that you can grow lettuce year round.
If you have experience growing lettuce indoors and would like to add your advice please feel free.
Winter garden projects to tackle 3.
There are many types of mushrooms that do awesome growing indoors.
The great thing about leafy greens is they grow in as little as 4 5 inches in depth.
Why we want to grow lettuce indoors in the winter.
Avoid head lettuces which are difficult to grow indoors.
Whereas other microgreens need that time to mature you can eat the immature leaves of lettuce.
This also means that you can enjoy fresh greens even with snow on the ground.
To get the best harvest your lettuce should be fed a liquid organic fertilizer after each harvest.
Many of you know we do a lot of winter growing we have 3 cold frames and a hoop house this year bursting with winter produce to learn more about our year round gardening start here.
Certainly growing lettuce is simple but it can be tedious to water it as often as you need to.
The reason is because i m going to share with you how to grow lettuce indoors.
Growing lettuce under lights.
Yes you can grow and enjoy homegrown lettuce even when it is below freezing outside.
In fact some gardeners keep lettuce growing year round.
While the bitter temperature outside is hostile to every green thing the warm temperature inside our home is welcoming to them.
Other gardeners enjoy just a bit of a break from the gardening season but most gardeners i know are once.
A great indoor project for gardening in winter is growing lettuce.
Grow lettuce in your very own kitchen.
You can also try growing other salad bowl favorites such as spinach arugula astro is a variety that does well indoors and mesclun.
I used a couple of them for my experiment growing winter greens.
When growing lettuce indoors you ll want to choose leafy varieties over the head lettuce.