Harvesting Romaine lettuce

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Growing Romaine lettuce in greenhouse - sun room - or your Grow Tent

Seed starting

To harvest high-quality salad greens almost every month of the year, you need to maintain a ready supply of young transplants. The only way to do it is to sow a pinch or two of seeds every week, either indoors or out.
Start seeds indoors when it's either too cold or too hot outdoors. You can grow under lights, in a greenhouse or in a sun room. Use a worm compost that's blended for seed starting and plant in small boxes/flats that measure about 4″ x 6″. In a flat of that size you might sow about 25 seeds. If you're growing under lights, cover the flat with plastic wrap until you see the seeds have sprouted. Fluorescent bulbs should be kept no more than about 2 inches above the foliage; use a timer so the lights are on for 15 hours a day. Once the seedlings have their first set of true leaves, you can transplant them to individual growing cells and grow them for another two weeks before transplanting them to the garden.

Soil and Moisture

Leafy greens grow best in rich, loamy soil that contains plenty of organic matter. Before you sow or plant out your seedlings, use a trowel or hand fork to dig some worm compost into the top couple inches of soil. Seedlings benefit from being watered right after transplanting with a weak solution of  EzE sweet TEA .

Micro-climate

 

Greens growing under the Garden Quilt

 
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Hoops to support garden fabric can remain in place while they're not being used.

This is the big lever for year-round salads. The idea is to create miniature growing environments where the soil and air temperature are well-suited to salad greens. Depending where you live, this will probably require hoops (or some other kind of support frame), clothespins, Earth Staples, and as many as four types of garden fabric (row cover).

Harvest

Harvesting a head of lettuce by pulling the whole plant from the earth.

There are many ways to harvest salad greens. In all cases, you want to make a clean cut using a knife or scissors. Most greens will re-grow after cutting, as long as you leave about a half inch of plant behind. Individual leaves may be picked, entire heads may be cut, cutting mixes and leaf lettuce may be cropped off with scissors. Experiment and see which techniques you like best.
In the dead of winter, when light levels are low, plants grow very slowly if at all. When lettuces and other salad greens enter this winter dormancy period at a young age – less than four to six weeks old – they usually revive and get growing as soon the light returns. Even in the coldest climates, spinach and arugula will usually overwinter under two layers of Garden Fabric, and be ready to harvest in March.
Too many gardeners plant salad greens just once a year. By planting continuously and thinking creatively about how to establish micro-climates, it's surprisingly easy to eat beautiful, delicious, home-grown salads almost every day of the year.

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