The gourmet lettuce bunches attract you from the racks of departmental stores, but with their steeply increasing price tags, most of you might be eager to master the techniques to grow lettuce in the containers.  This blog will tell you as how to grow lettuce in containers and how satisfying it is to grow fresh organic lettuce from the confines of home kitchen.  Another great thing is that lettuce can easily adapt to the container environment and it can be easily harvested from the confines of kitchen itself. Here is how to go about growing lettuce in containers.

Things you will need to grow lettuce in containers

• Containers with drainage holes
• Organic potting soil
• Young lettuce plants
• Garden hose attached with mist settings
• Watering can with sprinkling nozzle

Here is how you can grow lettuce in containers

• As a first step towards growing lettuce in containers, you need to visit your local Buy your lettuce leaves from local nursery or garden center. Zero in the best lettuce mixes you can find. If you are a newbie then perhaps you can take help of the farming expert to identify which lettuce mixes will work out for you.  When you are done with all the initial formalities then you can proceed towards identifying space where want to place you containers to grow lettuce.
• Choose a container with drainage holes and fill it with organic potting soil. If you plan to use plain soil while growing lettuce in container then you need to increase its fertility value by inducing external agents like fish emulsions.
• Take out the lettuce mixes and loosen their roots and place them in the pot.  You should bury the root balls in such a way that the tops of the plants stay even with the soil. Also, take care that you are burying the roots too deep in the container.

Many feel that availing the imminent supply of water and sunlight is main challenges of growing lettuce in container. Like any other crop sunlight and water are essential to grow lettuce in container. 

• Place the container in the area which receives atleast 4 hours of sunlight every day.
• Water the plants regularly or whenever you feel that they have become dry.  Once you go right on these two things then it becomes pretty easier to grow lettuce in container.

You can grow lettuce of more than one kind in a same container.

Harvesting

• Harvesting is the culmination of best organic farming practices. Always, harvest the lettuce leaves that are found outside and leave the inner foliage as it is. The inner foliage helps in growth and development of the new leaves.

If you feel that growing lettuce in containers is a comforting affair using the seeds then you can proceed with it.

You can also grow lettuce in December but  to know that you have to visit this blog http://www.ifood.tv/blog/how-to-grow-lettuce-in-december.

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