Some tips
• Inadequate light is probably the single biggest obstacle to growing indoor food plants. Plants eat light! What may seem like plenty of light to an indoor human can be pretty dim to a hungry plant. Pick your window accordingly! If you want to supplement with artificial light, the high-powered spot LED lights can throw a lot of photons without gouging your energy bill. Remember that winter days are short days, with much less available light for your indoor garden.
• Keep soil moist but not soggy. Uneven watering stresses plants.
• Don't add any fertilizer to start. Some fertilizers hinder germination. Too much fertilizer will kill a plant. Our Cedar Grove Potting Soil mix deons’t require fertilizer for a first crop.
• Keep your supply of salad greens coming by planting more containers on a rotating schedule.
• Once lettuce begins to “bolt” (grow a stem quickly, trying to flower and seed), it will begin to taste bitter. Uneven watering or too much heat can induce bolting. When it starts to bolt, it’s time to replant (or save some seed!)
• An easy way to harvest – let your "garden" dry out a bit to avoid drips, then hold your planting box vertically over a bowl and snip the leaves with scissors so the lettuce falls into the bowl.
• Inadequate light is probably the single biggest obstacle to growing indoor food plants. Plants eat light! What may seem like plenty of light to an indoor human can be pretty dim to a hungry plant. Pick your window accordingly! If you want to supplement with artificial light, the high-powered spot LED lights can throw a lot of photons without gouging your energy bill. Remember that winter days are short days, with much less available light for your indoor garden.
• Keep soil moist but not soggy. Uneven watering stresses plants.
• Don't add any fertilizer to start. Some fertilizers hinder germination. Too much fertilizer will kill a plant. Our Cedar Grove Potting Soil mix deons’t require fertilizer for a first crop.
• Keep your supply of salad greens coming by planting more containers on a rotating schedule.
• Once lettuce begins to “bolt” (grow a stem quickly, trying to flower and seed), it will begin to taste bitter. Uneven watering or too much heat can induce bolting. When it starts to bolt, it’s time to replant (or save some seed!)
• An easy way to harvest – let your "garden" dry out a bit to avoid drips, then hold your planting box vertically over a bowl and snip the leaves with scissors so the lettuce falls into the bowl.
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