In this video, I share 5 easy tips that will teach you how to grow the best lettuce of your life so you can grow tons of lettuce all year long in almost any climate! These lettuce growing tips will turn lettuce from a seasonal treat into a staple crop, providing you big lettuce harvests year round!
Whether you’re in a hot climate or a cold climate, or whether you’re growing lettuce in raised beds, earth beds or growing lettuce in containers, these lettuce tips can help you be successful and extend your lettuce growing season.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
0:24 Tip #1: Selecting Lettuce Varieties
2:10 Tip #2: Warm Season Lettuces
5:10 Tip #3: Cool Season Lettuces
6:52 Tip #4: Starting Lettuce Seeds
9:32 Tip #5: Using Plant Covers
15:36 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Introduction
0:24 Tip #1: Selecting Lettuce Varieties
2:10 Tip #2: Warm Season Lettuces
5:10 Tip #3: Cool Season Lettuces
6:52 Tip #4: Starting Lettuce Seeds
9:32 Tip #5: Using Plant Covers
15:36 Adventures With Dale
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Thanks for reminding us to get growing lotsa fall/ early winter lettuce for the holidays. My favorites are mixed leaf lettuces together with some kale plants and bunching onions as a border. Those lettuce plants shown are gorgeous! Looks like you're gonna have many fall- winter salads to enjoy. Your MG videos are always well done and helpful. Many thanks!
Your shade cloth canopy tip has been a game changer for my leafy greens. Not only does it buffer the sun but it's also a good bug netting. 🫶🏼
Thanks to your channel, I took up on your suggestion to grow cold climate lettuce at end of summer to beginning of fall last year. The red fire did pretty good at 6b until it got down to several days of 0 degrees and lower at night. I will be planting the same variety this fall again. Thunder follows Mr. Dale everywhere. Poor thing…. Hope you guys enjoyed the trip to FL except the thunder that Dale hates. Thanks for the video.
I needed to know this! May our gracious Lord bless you and give you his perfect peace from Texas ❤🎉
We need a dreary afternoon in Massachusetts right now.
Anthony- thanks for the video. We followed your advice and are on our 4th planting of lettuce this growing season here in Iowa. Thumbs up. Hugs to Dale. Sorry I called you Andrew in the last post. My nephew was here. Peace.
Which percentage shade cloth you used?
That romaine was amazing! In texas we had unheard of extra rain and mild summer for the beginning as well zone 8b
Everytime i look at my shade cloth i hear your voice! Converted! Now i gotta remember to order the blood meal. My shade cloth isnt even above my head, but they are out there! Used some tomato stakes x4… Zone 9A…insect netting bought and in use thanks to you. Not a glamourous looking garden but i am trying to put in the work..milk jugs as greenhouses😅😊
Thanks man, ordered Romaine Giant Ceasar and Variety Pack. I am in 10a, still little to warm but I take your advice and will start them indoors for now and wait till cools off a bit.
Thank you so much! I grew lettuce in Spring of this year, but I have some seedlings going right now 😁
When you succession plant, are you planting the same crop in the same place or rotating in a different place?
Now I know why I haven’t had luck with romaine – I keep growing it in the coldest part of the year!
I thought you got flooded out—hope you are OK.
Temperatures is not much of a concern, but it can be, for gardeners, or farmers who are not prepared. I think what is a concern is not having enough outdoor sun light all year.
I saw people growing their food in different temperatures, and frankly I do not think it matters when to grow lettuce. If you have enough sun light all year round then you should be fine growing lettuce whenever you want outdoors, but I would suggest first to customize your garden. I can see you are trying to prevent a lot of light from hitting your garden, so what you are showing is that you have prepared, for hotter temperatures. The colder temperatures can also be dealt with as well, but it has to be in a different way!
Since you have a somewhat of an open based garden then, for sure colder temperatures can become a problem, for you.
Growing indoors is 1 option you can use, and then transplant whatever you have grown in better whether conditions, and trying to preserve food as well during better weather, for when the whether becomes not favorable outside is another option, so you, and other people might not have to grow anything, for a certain period throughout the year.
Is there an easy way to know which lettuces are warm weather and which are better suited for cold weather?
"no average year" – perfectly said!!
So is this an earlier video or did u sow it the day u uploaded
This year I discovered Muir lettuce. Held up and didn't bolt or get bitter in 90+ degree heat. Even hit triple digits and was fine in the shade. Will be a staple from now on.
Do you think Dale is going to like living in Florida?
My summers are highly variable. Some days are 68F, some days 90F. Spring and fall are more like 41F-68F however. We never get long stretches of consistent temperatures, unless they're 90F+. I feel like I should just try growing some lettuce indoors. I also got a lot of insect pests despite covering my lettuce with a (admittedly crappy) hoop structure. I wish I had gone with wood raised beds instead of metal
You guys are getting some nice rain right now.
Zone 10b: I hope you don’t mind my asking, but I just can’t seem to nail down the timing, especially on lettuce and broccoli. It’s been 95+ here all week with seedling-drowning rains yet my local extension says Sept is the month to plant these things. How can I not delay my planting? I’m skeptical that shade cloth is going to help. Am I wrong? Can't thank you enough for your hard work in helping all of us learn to be better gardeners. 😎
Right on time!! Thank you.
Just had planted some lettuce in a vego raised bed was doing good now something ate it half way down ,like my sweetcorn was almost ready we had a 90mph down burst all flattened an not much there
Kinda bummer year onions were great
Guess I have onion breath rest of year 😅😂😂😂😂
Old video…waiting for you what you do in September so we can follow you
Great video I learned a lot! Thank you
I grew Jericho romaine this past spring thru early summer. Very good for hot climates; bred in Israel. I have never grown lettuce before and it did well for me in Mississippi.
Good video always start lettuce seeds. In a tray then trans plant out side here in Mass.
Hope you didn't get too much damage from the storm. I saw your video. Things toppled over. Im central NC. Lots of rain. Some wind but not as bad as you. God bless! I needed this video. Thanks!! 😊
I love planting romaine. I get plants already started at Lowe’s or, like this year, I got them from a local farm supply store. I also planted some early jersey cabbage and planted carrots from seed. I also planted some butter lettuce. Everything seems to be coming up and growing nicely so far.
Thank you! Great info.
Question:
When you cover your zucchini, how do the pollinators get to them? Do you have to pollinate each female flower???
I just planted my lettuces in seed starting cubes. They haven’t germinated yet, but I know they will! My broccoli seedlings started poking out of the soil today!
The problem is that you can only eat so much and it doesn’t store so it is a lot of work for a little reward! I have given up on it in zone 7.
Хоть и живу в Сибири, но с удовольствием вас смотрю:)
Don’t know if this storm became Helena or not but I hope it didn’t wipe out your lettuce crop! Debby broke my heart over my tomatoes. Lost 19 of my 21 tomatoes when she visited a while back. Hope my lettuce didn’t drown and yours doesn’t either. I do have to reset all my shade cloth since the wind really played havoc. Usually mid-September would be a little early to retire them for the winter! Hope you’ll find that all is well when daylight breaks!
what is your feeding schedule for growing lettuce/greens? You mentioned blood meal and fish fertilizer but didn't say how much and how often.
I check almost daily to see if you have posted a new video and appreciate so much the time that you invest for us.
Thank you again for all of the info. Thankful you do the trial and error and save your audience from doing it.😊
I'm in 8b as well, just down the road in Myrtle Beach. Per your recommendations, I started my cool season greens… lettuce, colards, broccoli and turnips in trays a couple of weeks ago. Coming up nicely, about an inch tall. I'm not sure about the lettuce temps as the seeds are ones that I saved from last year, but they are called Buttercrunch.
I tend to let one or two plants remain in the ground to bolt, flower, and go to seed (if not hybrid). Do you ever collect seed for future planting?
Poor Dale 💦💨💦
Try cervanek from harris seeds. They are just beautiful and does not bolt that fast.
Lettuce is a welcome weed in my garden. I leave a few plants to go to seed every year and they self sow all over the place. I've hardly had to plant any for several years.
Buttercrunch is an incredibly easy, productive and great tasting lettuce to grow. I wish I had discovered it years earlier. I germed mine in the shade last month during the insane heat wave and was able to start planting under my shade clothes this week.
What about Cimmeron? Can those be Grown now in Georgia outdoors?
So dang glad I watched this before I started planting my Fall crop tomorrow!! I had no idea that certain lettuce varieties should be grown in certain seasons, I thought all lettuce could be grown in Spring, Summer, and Fall!! Thank you for saving me a lot of lettuce heartbreak…Lol!!