- Timing of Planting: Plant salad crops like lettuce, radicchio, and spinach during their ideal temperature range of 10 to 25 degrees Celsius to avoid bolting and poor taste. This will also minimize pest attacks.
- Regular Liquid Fertilization: Use small, regular applications of liquid fertilizers, especially those high in nitrogen, to encourage the fast growth of leafy salad crops. Over-fertilization should be avoided as it can damage the plants.
- Adequate Watering: Keep the soil consistently moist without overwatering to prevent the plants from wilting or the roots from rotting. Checking soil moisture up to the third knuckle on your finger can help determine when watering is needed.
- Variety Selection: Choose a variety of salad crops that grow well in your climate and that you enjoy eating. Mix different types to keep salads interesting and consider growing conditions when selecting varieties.
- Regular Harvesting: Harvest salad crops regularly to encourage continued growth and to prevent them from going to seed. Replant gaps left from harvesting with new seedlings to maximize space and reduce weed competition.
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Can you tell me how to grow broccoli rapini? sometimes called broccoli rabe… it's so delicious made in a soup with garlic and olive oil.
Thanks so much!!! looking forward to making an all season salad greens bed, if i can keep them cool
I always learn so much from you, Thanks
This video had me subscribe, thank you 🙏🏽 appreciate the info, I live in a similar climate
Thanks for your tips because i just want to start my new hobby ☺️
Tip…6…Use chick manure..😃☺
Great tips!
Should have added what season and months to grow and when to let them flower and when to collect the seeds.
Love all the videos you make🤩
Aloha from American Samoa…I love watching your videos and that is how i found there is a Perpetual Spinach green..can you share a link where you got you seeds pls?,,Thank you.
Great video! Thank you!🥬
Thanks for the video!
Smart tips🙏
Will lettuce grow in Melbourne winter?
Thank you so much for the information on lettuce. It's a crop that my family absolutely loves, but we've had issues growing. The 5 tips definitely came in handy this summer because I did research and find lettuces for warmer temperatures. The best tip was the feeding/fertilizing in small amounts.
Tip to grow a lot of salad: learn to like the stuff that grows fast, aka radish greens (cz 6)
When is the best time to grow ice berg Lettice?
Mark! Thanks for the tips. I'll try planting them in the fall with frost hearty varieties and see how it goes.
Where do you order your galvanized raised beds from? Thanks. Ray
Thanks Mark. I live on the Gold Coast and it’s my first time at trying to grow salad because I am sick of throwing away store bought bags after 3 days. However, I bought trays of mixed lettuce from BUnnings, bought the raised bed, bought the Vege potting soil & mulch. Watered religiously and they haven’t moved an inch 😕 in over 4 weeks. The sun was too strong so I moved them to morning sun only, still no movement.
How do I get them like yours????
Thank you so much!
Your very motivational snd enthusiastic! Ty
Love your work
When a lettuce bolts early, if I cut the bolting stem itself, will the plant continue growing leaves?
What would be most feasible covering for my raised gardens fo protection?
Is chicken manure soaked in water a good fertiliser for salads?
5 years later, someone new is learning a great deal about their favorite pre-meal, SALAD!
And in 5 years if we're all still here, someone new will learn about lettuce!!
I grow a lot of loose leaved salad crops, way more than the family can eat.
As you said, key to continual harvesting is to keep pruning/trimming leaves.
Even if we can't eat them, the chooks will happily eat them ….or they go in the compost bin.
enjoyed it
Hi Mark, I went away on holiday for a few weeks and my lettuce crops have shot up to seed. Are they gone then or can you trim right back and they’ll regrow without the bitterness?
Cheers