How We Grow TONS of Lettuce in Containers
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2023
- We are growing lettuce in containers, in this episode, we will discuss how to to grow them, and how you too can grow tons of lettuce in just containers!
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Thank you all so much for watching and Grow BIG! - Jak na to + styl
LUKE, I'VE GOT TO BRAG ON YOUR EMPLOYEE, JODY IS SO HELPFUL WHEN ORDERING. SHE REALLY IS AWESOME. SO KIND. THANK YALL SO MUCH.
OK MELINDA!
For those keeping notes on container gardening from this video, keep in mind Luke keeps his house's humidity really high. High enough to make his tropical plants happy. So, just take that under consideration😉
😂 proudest moment - graduation day! Love your humor! Laughing and learning, every time!
I'm a plant freak too Luke, and I bet a lot of your Subscribers are too! I know you have "sharpened" my gardening skills!!
Watching your videos is so enjoyable. I hope someday my hubby & I can travel up to Mi & meet you.
God bless you!
Love your irrigation solution. Human ingenuity is amazing when given a chance.
I’ve been growing lettuce in fabric pots in my closet since September and it outgrows what we can eat - and we eat a lot of salads! I plan to continue my indoor growing because our Dallas springs and summers are much too hot for lettuce. Thank you for more great tips and now my challenge is to scale back a bit so we can keep up with the harvest.😊
That’s amazing! I assume you have grow lights in your closet? I never even thought about utilizing a closet for this!
That’s awesome!! I’d love to see a picture of your closet!! I know about having too much at one time and having to succession plant more effectively! I’m growing indoors as well but I have a hydroponic DIY type setup with pvc tubes and it’s similar to an NFT system where the plants have no soil just the roots and they sit inside these holes on top and the roots just hang down and the nutrient rich water flows by. I’ve got 52 holes that are on a rack that’s 4Ft high and 3 ft long and 12 inches wide and I have three shelves each with two pipes and they are all connected and the water begins at the top and flow down through to the last pipe and then back into the large 70litre storage tote that it is pumped out of. So it continuously is recirculating. I absolutely love this setup and we grow sooo much lettuce and all varieties of leafy greens! So many I’d never even heard of before and they all have an incredibly different flavour. It’s been amazing and my hubby who surprised me at Christmas setup another DIY system identical to the one I already had and so now I’m going to have twice the fun! I’m just getting ready to set it all back up again because I’ve not been growing anything for the past several months and I’m eager to get back growing again!! I have missed growing soooo much! 🥰❤️🙏🏻🇨🇦
@@leannekenyoung your system sounds amazing. We’re having too much fun!
6 plants per adult per 4 weeks is my planting for lettuce.
@@Wellbaby94 I know it’s terrific eh? I can’t believe what they want for greens at the grocery store and they are sooo old by the time they even get there!
I usually don't watch too many container growing videos because I tried using some last year and I found watering to be a challenge. However, a light bulb went off watching this video. I'm in Upstate NY and winters are long. It hit me that I'm spending an average of $24 + a month on organic greens for salads. Why am I not growing lettuce under my grow lights🤦♀️ As always, thanks for video, Luke!
I love how you noticed the water dripping and are using it to your advantage!
Nice tips! Beautiful healthy looking lettuce. Cheers!
Thank you! :) love the channel buddy.
Just paid $2.99 a SMALL head at a store out in the boondocks of Washington State!😮. Now I’m going to grow my own year round!!!!
My wife got me planting boxes for Christmas.
She wants to put flowers in them then on the kitchen table.
These things aren’t sealed, and if they were the plants would be sitting in water. Just too much other work.
So I put leaf lettuce and kale in them.
Not deep at all, but we can eat it
Loving this video Luke. Time to start seeds
I use your salad bowl mix, absolutely love it! I grow it year round inside. It germinates and grows so fast we have never ending salad which we love.
It is one of my favorite seed blends.
Do you keep it under grow lights?
This is so awesome! Over never thought of keeping lettuce growing indoors year round!
I’m getting ready to plant lettuce seeds, great timing! Thank you!
Thanks Luke!
I've been growing (very slowly!) lettuce in the garden all winter. I think I'll start some in pots now that I've seen yours.☺️
Blessings! 💚 🌿🌻🌱
Try in pots against a sunny wall. Cover with a clear plastic bin, more to stop them from getting to cold and wet.
@@helenstewart2085 Yeah, that's pretty much what Luke did.😄
I have a bunch of lettuce seedlings that I was thinking I needed to transplant, now I know how many to put in a grow pot. Thanks for the timely video!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
I LOVE seeing healthy beautiful green plants 🌱 i’m absolutely eager for all mine to grow and show me their best selves! Of course I enjoy eating all the things I grow but there’s just something extra special about watching teeny tiny seeds grow into amazing green plants! I’m so looking forward to the process of just watching them day by day show me what they have to offer. It’s really probably one of the most magical experiences that we can share with young and old and the excitement in children’s faces is a blessing I cant describe. If you’ve never planted a seed with a child I highly encourage you to do so and if you don’t have any children near you, I would suggest joining a community garden that’s closeby. You can share your knowledge and gain so much more from the experience and their may be others that have never grown a seed before and you will be able to watch their fascination as the garden continues to grow. Just get out there and have some fun with it. If you are lucky enough to yard go outside and dig a small hole and plant a seed! Even in grass just cut out a little piece of grass and plant a seed and be sure to put a stick in the ground so you can find it and mow around it. Or if you don’t have a yard plant a seed in a wet cotton ball and it will sprout and while it’s sprouting you can buy some soil and put it in an old food container like a coffee can or yogurt container anything and if it’s plastic and it had food in it previously then you know it’s food grade plastic. 🥰❤️🙏🏻🇨🇦🌱
love your passion and gardening tips! I am growing dozens of herbs and vegetables in containers using my driveway
Love your channel. You're the only gardening channel I have chosen to watch. Thank you for all you do for the gardening community. Thank you for sharing your gardening knowledge. You are much needed and respected in the gardening world.
im one that likes a raised bed 30"" high. or more. looks nice as well as allows me to garden from a wheelchair. great show!
and for those of us with bad backs a joy to garden
Ordered seeds last night! Lettuce is next on the list to start!
Good luck! 🎉
Great advice and learned that planting in cloth bags is preferred. I have tons and they will be used 😀
It is great for air pruning the roots.
Great information on growing lettuce. I am excited to watch as you fill up your new greenhouse and share your adventures with us.
It will be fun! I can’t wait.
Thanks for the info on the amount of trifecta to use in a wheelbarrow. I will be amending my soil with it very soon. I really like your greenhouse.
Thanks for watching! 😊
Wow! That’s a nice bunch of lettuces. Nice. Take care
Placing the lettuce under the drip areas is genius. Really an elegant solution to what others might consider a problem area. Everybody has microclimates like that- outside I have splash zones where roof runoff overshoots the gutters where I can grow water-loving plants despite the dry climate. Inside the greenhouse I let peas run up the sides of the shelving.
I learn the most in the shortest time, from your videos. Thanks!
Great intro. Love your seeds!
Finding the natural drip line is so cool!!
It was such a lucky find. Amazing.
Love watching you growing
This was very helpful! Thank you 💚
Thanks for the amazing information, you always explain how to do potting plants. ❤🙏
I’ve noticed the soil level drops significantly between sowings making it feel necessary to amend soil with more compost before second/third plantings.
@16.58, What did I enjoy from this episode? Everything! Just in time for this exciting time at the start of our UK growing season, even though still a frost-risk. Cleared vegetable patch (8'x18') all fed and weeded, same with raised bed, and 6'x8' greenhouse (insulated with bubble wrap), all good to go. I have already planned for some potatoes in suitable bags for a start with my 1st earlies, but will now have to try some lettuce, thanks. Last season, my grow&pick salad lettuce gave months of harvesting. Important when daily salads are an essential part of my diet/treatment for a prostate problem.
Handy for just us two pensioners instead of just the large, solid ones like Iceberg that need to be eaten fairly quickly. A Newbie, I have bought a Max-Min thermometer, an automatic solar vent opener and have a spare, ex-caravan, 80W solar panel, 12V car battery, large water barrel and little pond pump which I hope to set up with a 24 hour timer, for irrigation when regularly away a few days in our caravan. Last year I had a bucket perched up on a buffet with a 4mm plastic (pneumatics) tubing system running around my tomato plant tubs for gravity irrigation. Many thanks for all the helpful information 🙂.
Update - Having just commented and then looked the news, this popped up, further convincing me that even a little home-grown produce is a wise move - for healthy food, healthy mind (therapeutic in this troubled world) and hopefully saving a little cash. I'm glad I dug that lawn up!
www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/news/tesco-and-sainsbury-s-shoppers-in-london-find-shelves-empty-as-supermarkets-explain-why-there-are-no-tomatoes-cucumbers-or-peppers/ar-AA17FK9k?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=56ab536e4e6f42e9edf3bba1329ccaeb
Thanks Luke! You answered my question! I’m planning to buy ProMix at Menards this weekend, thanks to your FB tip on the bargain it is. I’m planning to fill my GreenStalk towers with it this spring, which hold 6 gallons each tier. I wondered how much Trifecta+ I should use per gallon in the ProMix. If I understood you in this video, then I should put 1 1/2 Cups Trifecta+ in each 6 gallon tier!
what a great video, ty
I've got a 3ft high 4x4 bed because of my back and the bunnies around my house. I didn't fill it up with soil, however. I filled it first with a bunch of logs, then sticks and twigs, then yard and garden debris. Only the top 1ft was filled quality soil and compost. After about 10 years, I'm guessing I'll have a full bed of soil/compost, though.
well i done the same hugulculture tactic...for me the logs were gone in less then 5 years(combo of soft and hardwood) .... now i have in each of my 5 raised (90cm-120-250) a big colony of worms and increadable good soil .... each year i top the bed with a 5cm layer of new compost to add some nutrients .... and i have bountifull harvesting each year (lol i had a lettuce so big and heavy it fed a family of 6 for 2 straight days)
May I ask what construction materials you used on your 3ft beds?
ROFLOLOOL Besides the barking dog, everything else is dormant! Luc, you crack me up!
so where are you? I'm in north Idaho and it snowed this morning and temps are to 02 F I'm setting up starts in my living room in hopes to be ready for spring in the middle of April
He’s in Michigan. LOL
That's a great tip about rolling a cuff on growbags for shallow-rooted plants. 😎
Very helpful information. Thank you.
LUKE!
Greetings from Southwest Wi!
Just wanted to say I got my shipment of Trifecta+ already! You guys are quick! Being only a 2nd year gardener- I am super excited to using this and to learning so much more from you through out the year! Time to Grow Big or Go Home! (Well- almost time)😅
Let’s go! Happy gardening! :)
Was wondering what I was going to do with those pots this year . Good idea
I’m like you. I don’t throw out any of my little seedlings. I give them all a chance at full life. 💜
We’re in a small urban area gardening 1/2 of our backyard. Hoping to move to a couple of acers to free range some chickens.
OK Luke, I rarely ask you any questions and I try to listen again in case I missed it, so I have a couple questions…
#1, how did your lettuce get so big in a months time? I started my lettuce about six weeks ago, and they are barely an inch tall. We’ve had some really cold weather here in South Houston, as a matter fact last night it was 37°, so I’ve been bringing my plants in and out quite often.
#2, How do you help your starts get big and healthy once they germinate?
#3, And lastly, how come I cannot buy A 15 pound bag of trifecta? All that is available is 3 pounds.
Well I guess that was a little redundant, but please answer.
Thank you so much and as always God bless, I appreciate your time and knowledge. ❌⭕️♥️🙏🏽
I’m not Luke, but wanted to share our lettuce success. I got a brighter white LED light that offered more blue spectrum light. I grew butter crunch and spinach and they are doing well. I sprinkled trifecta on top. Used Pro Mix potting soil and dishpan type tubs, one with holes and another to catch water. And a fan off and on.
I wonder if it’s availability or shipping cost on the Trifecta? You could email them or call as I’ve not seen too many questions answered on videos in the past, probably because I’m sure he’s very busy.
@@dustyflats3832 Thank you Dusty, I know I’m one of those who usually answers peoples questions when I can. I know they’re very busy. Thank you Honey 😃
Love growing lettuce.
So love your channel!
I so love you!
I love your seeds
We live at 11,000 ft. In the mountains. We're putting up a
20 x 80 hoop house this year. We'll have raised beds and containers to plant in. We'll have low tunnels over containers and beds during cold weather. What can you tell me about gardening like this at this altitude? What will not grow? Plant care? Anything would be helpful.
We kept eating ours so fast they don’t get a chance to head up😂. I’m getting tempted to heat my small lean to GH as I’m running out of room now that I can grow lettuce. I sprinkled a bit of Trifecta on our lettuce inside as I wanted something organic to fertilize. It’s 32*F out right now, but 80*F in GH Z5a WI. Not bad!
I know the Trifecta was pricey, but according to directions and what you just showed it doesn’t take much. We just got a temp alarm and it’s been interesting watching the temps in 4 areas and it’s unbelievable how warm it gets And how DRY- without plants the humidity is ONLY 11%!!
Yes, use perlite to loosen soil. This video is dangerous to my electric bill😂 as I want to heat it early. I finally have bright enough light that indoor lettuce is successful. Yes any reasonably priced soil to grow your own food is much better than paying high prices for food you have no idea of how it was grown.
Great video! I need auto vents as soon as we re-work GH. I’m just wondering if they let the heat out how do I trap the heat in the heat sink? Still have to figure that out.
Unrelated, but I’m so upset that when I was nicking a hibiscus seed it flipped up in the air and bounced like a Plinko chip down the drain. Ugh! I only had 5 seeds of a Luna mix and was going to winter sow them, but thought maybe I should grow inside. I threw them in a bag with damp paper towel now for a couple days in hopes they germinate and finish planting inside.
I had a hibiscus, but my husband brought home a phlox one day and planted it on top of my hibiscus-never seen it again, just like the seed down the drain😢. So hopefully I will see at least 1 sprout.😊
Update: Yipee! The hibiscus seeds germinated in 2 Days! Probably because I had them on heat mat also. So excited!
I do four to five leaf lettuces in a 1 gallon pot. They sit on my window and it's very nice. I can get multiple harvest enough to feed three or four people per harvest from two pots with eight to ten plants.
The first year I grew carrots at the community garden I grew 30 to 36 inch long carrots from a pkg of white carrot seeds I was given in a seed swap and everyone thought the were parsnips but they were carrots I am walking with a walker so was using a taller raised bed and used worm casting and manure to fertilize before planting
Thank you! My first year using grow gags but I love them so far. Do you remember about how many lettuce plants you put in those 15-gal bags?
Compost with worm castings should work well too.
Hi Luke great video. What would be the lowest outdoor temperature be able to get it outside? No green house here. Zone 7 b .
I would say around 40 degrees is as low as I would go.
I’ll tell you., the smartest lettuce growing situation I had ever seen was a layered gutter system hung on either side of their greenhouses in a gradual slope, which freed up the floor space. It routed the water via gravity from top to bottom. a small pump was used to bring the water back up top from the bottom drain bucket. Like a hydroponic system but with soil medium and moss to plug the end of the gutters to prevent the soil from getting down into the drain bucket systems. They had a drain bucket that floated the water into another run-off bucket that held the little fish tank pump that pushed the water back up to the top to begin again. The pump was set to a timer, so it pretty much ran itself and they could add their worm castings tea straight to the run off water bucket. The were growing strawberries, chives, lettuces, herbs.. all kinds of things.
Just mentioning bc your greenhouse would be perfect for this system and can give you so much more space.
I’m
Using diluted urine for my greenhouse lettuce.some
Happy plants!
Good -- I also regard it as a valuable liquid fertilizer!
My tomatoes, in a 5 gallon fabric pot, filled them with roots. It was quite impressive~
Hey Luke.
The wife always 'dogs' on Iceberg Lettuce as having ZERO nutritive value. I'd love to see some sort of analysis comparing your Trifecta-fed Iceberg leafs to that from the grocery store. You're welcome for the video idea!
When I quit eating the low-nutrient iceberg, I found the broad crunchy stems if Romaine to be a good substitute for that crunch factor, with far more nutrient value.
I just started this video and I started cracking up at your graduation lettuce!!!😹😊😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹 been subscribed to you for a long time😊👍🌱
I am so sorry to bother you, but I have a question. We are in Michigan as well and could you please let us know regarding the build of your greenhouse? I looked thru your videos and I cannot seem to find a greenhouse build video. Thank you and happy planting 🥰
It was built by Nifty Hoops. We had the video up around the Nee Year or a bit earlier.
@@MIgardener Thank you so much🤗🥰
what's your opinion on growing lettuce in PVC pipes
Luke, can you address rehydration of compressed pro-mix-type bales that are very dry and dusty? Thankyou.
How do you clean your fabric pots for the new year to re-use them?
In looking at your container videos, I don't see that you've talked about saucers. Aren't saucers good for watering in dry climates?
Luke, what are your thoughts on that fabric layment that keeps weeds under control?
Do remember, there are 3-5 foot carrots.
Manpukuji
Can't forget them!
When you are adding soil to your raised bed gardens, how deep should the soil be 12"-24" of soil?
DRINK every time he says "Basically" LOL. Love your vids!
I get moles in the greenhouse. Last spring had ground hog in greenhouse.
I grow rows of lettuce and bok/pak choy in those long narrow plastic window flower boxes on tables in my greenhouse all summer. They are 30 inches long, 6 deep and only 6' wide but they grow great and it means not having to get on the ground to look for bug issues (few even get into the greenhouse). I just alternate the planting to stagger so I always have some on the go and some ready to eat. My only issue was earwigs last year so I just sprinkled Diatomaceous Earth around the table tops and never saw them again. Being more cognisant not to pour water all over this yr as I think the damp attracted them. If people are just starting out they have those long planter boxes at dollar stores. Just wash and bring them inside, or into a garage/cellar in winter as the cheap plastic gets brittle in really cold areas. Num, num, num...salads.
Are there other crops that does well in this sorts of setup? I always thought that every crop for a good harvest per unit of space requires providing them with plenty of it to begin with.
Hi Luke! I LOVE your info, and straight forward presentation! Can you please tell me where you buy your trifecta! I think I need a good product! Thanks so much! I live in Alberta, Canada. Zone 3.😊
Hi Luke, just wondering do you have to harden off the lettuce to set in a greenhouse that is not heated. We just had a dump of snow a week ago. Goes up to 6 degrees Celsius in the day and as cold as -3 Celsius at night.
Enjoyed the watch. I would have thought that thermometer and humidity gauges would be front and center in your greenhouse plus ones outside for comparisons.
We have those. We talked about them in a video not too long ago.
@@MIgardener Sorry, guessed I missed it.
Great Video ! Question. Do you have to refresh the pots soil year to year or do you replant in the same soil?
Sorry if you see this twice, but I've been growing lettuce in my basement under grow lights and they seem to be burning. The lights are only on maybe 14 hours (I've changed that to about 8 for now), and they're quite a distance from the plants. I looked for pests but don't see any other than an occasional fungus gnat. The Black-Seeded Simpson seem more sensitive, but it's also happening to my Forellenschluss and some of my May Queen!
Any ideas?
Is there a secret to keeping moss off of the fabric bags? Love the greenhouse. My sister gave me a small one a few years ago, it was great before it became a shed instead of a plant house LOL
Love your videos! Where can I the Trifecta fertilizer?
do you fertilize in addition to trifecta +? and is it safe for seedlings when you pit up
What should I add to my soil if it’s really soggy & squishy? Sand?
Eastern Tennessee we get so much rain. New to the property & the existing garden looks as tho it has been overgrown several year. I cleared out all the weeds & bad crops & it’s so soggy right now trying to come out of winter.
Hi, I have fabric pots. And I would like to see how lettuce will grow. Thanks!
What kind of Fert did you add?
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I’m wondering what fabric is safe to grow our vegetables in?
What temperature did you wait for it to get to to move to your greenhouse?
What temperatures are your lettuce able to survive in the greenhouse at night without supplemental heating?
Most of our nights are still below freezing here in Ohio.
Generally nothing colder than about 23 degrees.
Just wondering if you use slow release fertilizer
Trifecta is fast acting and slow release, it’s amazing!!!! That’s what he’s using.
When can you start seedlings in green house? Or any plant for that matter. First year forma green house.
Graduation day! 😆
I’ve been succession growing lettuce and greens in my basement since Christmas I have a three tier grow light system from Garden gate
Nothing like fresh greens in the middle of winter!!!! Thanks Luke Now to get a greenhouse….
Baby steps! I think you are doing great!!!
Awesome!
I use ProMix and it endures high heat at the store in the sun and low temps in the winter if I leave them outside and I've been wondering if the mychorrhizae survive.
I know it seems easy but is there a video on planting lettuce into the start packs for head lettuce? I've only ever grown leaf lettuce. How many seeds per square pot were planted?
Same process as leaf lettuce, just 2 seeds per pot, thin them to just 1 plant once they get growing.
Hi I’ve been watching your videos for years but I only subscribed recently. I never have luck with lettuce growing them from seed and they always grow leggy. I think it might be that it’s too hot inside under a grow light so this year i am trying them outside any advice of successfully growing lettuce indoors.( Romaine Lettuce)
Isn’t 80 degrees too hot for lettuce? Likewise, in another video, I thought you were advocating for getting cool season crops out in mid-March. I did and was quickly met with 23-35 degree nights and a ton of rain. What gives?
How big is your greenhouse and did you build it or where did you buy it?
Do I need to leave the greenhouse door open sometime for bees to enter & pollinate?
I’d be happy if my lettuce seeds would germinate. They’re in a room that ranged 64-69 deg. Should I use a heat mat?
You should always keep a few bags of ProPlus in the Greenhouse for that reason...
We’re going to move a few in after finding this out too.
It has been 3 years I have been growing Georgia Jett Sweet Potatoes. I had a very good harvest. My last harvest of potatoes is pecky and has little white worms. I would like to know how to stop this for my next planting?
Hey Luke, just wondering if your crew had done germination testing on those pineapple tomatillos. I tried twice to germinate, the second time in an Aqua seed starter and all seeds failed. Any advice how to get them to activate? TIA!
Yes, we germinate test everything. We just use a damp paper towel in a ziplock bag. We got roughly 76% germination, which for pineapple tomatillo is pretty good.
@@MIgardener okay I will give it another try. Thanks for your reply.