Grow Lettuce Year Round

It can be grown in almost any location in the garden – straight in the soil, on the windowsill, or even between your flowers. With a good focus on gardening basics like proper water, shade, and planting in succession, lettuce can be a constant harvest from your garden almost the entire year long.

Can you grow lettuce all year round?
How do I make lettuce year round?
Can I grow lettuce in winter?
Is it too late to grow lettuce?
What is the best time to grow lettuce?
How cold is too cold for lettuce?
Can lettuce be grown year round indoors?
What temperature will kill lettuce?
Can I grow lettuce in my greenhouse?
Can you grow salad all year?

Can you grow lettuce all year round?

lettuce (butterhead) 'All Year Round'

You may never need another lettuce variety again. As the name suggests, this is one you can sow and grow at any time of the year: as a general rule expect to pick your lettuces around 10 weeks after sowing. ... Protect from slugs and cover early and late sowings with a cloche.

How do I make lettuce year round?

One simple way to extend the harvest period of each lettuce sowing is to sow several different varieties on the same day. Choose varieties with different numbers of days to maturity, including at least one fast one and one slow one.

Can I grow lettuce in winter?

Winter lettuces can be grown on throughout the winter and further sowing can start again in February, under cover. If you have a poly tunnel, or greenhouse and are in a sheltered spot, you can sow winter lettuces continuously taking advantage of mild spells over the winter.

Is it too late to grow lettuce?

Considered a spring and fall crop, lettuce thrives when temperatures are between 60 to 70 degrees F. Many varieties reach maturity in as little as 30 days, and some can even be harvested much earlier as microgreens.

What is the best time to grow lettuce?

About Lettuce

Lettuce is cool-season crop that grows best in the spring and fall in most regions. It's a great leafy green to grow because it grows quickly, produces for a long time, and isn't very demanding as long as you keep it sufficiently watered.

How cold is too cold for lettuce?

How to Grow: Lettuce is a cool-weather crop that thrives in the temperature range 60-65 degrees F, and if thoroughly hardened, most varieties survive temperatures as low as 20 degrees F. Cold-adapted varieties survive much lower temperatures. Seed germinates best at about 75 degrees F.

Can lettuce be grown year round indoors?

Grow a salad on a sunny windowsill or under grow lights

There's nothing quite like the taste of fresh-picked greens, straight from the garden. For most of us, that's a pleasure reserved for spring through fall. However, salad lovers can grow lettuce indoors, all winter long.

What temperature will kill lettuce?

Colder temperatures (26-31 degrees F.) may burn foliage but will not kill broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, lettuce, mustard, onion, radish, and turnip. The real cold weather champs are beets, Brussels sprouts, carrots, collards, kale, parsley, and spinach.

Can I grow lettuce in my greenhouse?

Did you know? Lettuce can be sown as late as October under cloches and in polytunnels or greenhouses but choose the hardier varieties such as 'All the Year Round'.

Can you grow salad all year?

Salad can be grown all year round in a heated greenhouse, but this is rarely economical. A sunny windowsill or conservatory can be successful, provided it does not get too hot. In unheated growing conditions, sowing can begin as soon as light levels and temperatures allow, producing crops from late spring to autumn.