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How to Grow Salad Bowl Lettuce
A step by step guide to growing cut and come again salad bowl lettuce in your garden or in a container.
Equipment
- Trowel
- cane or long stick
- Watering can
Ingredients
- 10 litres multipurpose compost If growing in a container
- 1 packet Salad Bowl (cut & come again) Lettuce seeds
Instructions
- Plant the seeds in a place that gets sun most of the day. Lettuce will grow in most types of soil but it will grow better if you can dig in a little garden compost or manure to the seedbed.
- Lay a cane or a long stick to mark a straight line for sowing the seeds. Use a trowel, an old spoon or your fingers to create a groove that is 1 cm deep.
- Use a watering can to soak the row where you plan to sow the seeds.
- Shake a few seeds from the packet onto the palm of your hand, then sow them thinly along the length of the row.
- Cover the lettuce seeds with soil with your trowel and mark the end of the row with a marker to show what you have planted in that row.
- The salad leaves should start to grow fairly quickly and after one month will be large enough for you to pick a few leaves. If the seeds have been sown too thickly, you can pull out some of the plants to make more room for the others.
- Water frequently especially if there has been no rain..
Notes
To grow in a container, fill the container with multipurpose compost, water well, scatter over the seeds and then cover with a thin layer of compost.