For New Gardeners: How to Seed Start Lettuce, Arugula, Corn Salad Indoors: Greens! - MFG 2014
Tips, Tricks
Greens are great cool weather crops. They can be started indoors and come in so many varieties. It is a good ideas to mix up greens with different matures dates. The red lettuce matures in 55 days. The corn salad in 45 days. And the arugula matures in 35 days. You want to start lettuces indoors about 4-6 week before light frost 30 degree nights. Most, not all, but most can handle light frosts and even freeze. Welcome to My 1st Vegetable Garden. This channel is 100% dedicated to new vegetable gardeners that want to learn and have lots of questions. I will teach you how to seed start, plant, tend and harvest vegetables. Please subscribe! The videos are very detailed as if you have never gardened before. Please help spread the world of my channel to all the new gardeners you know that are looking for a friendly place to learn. Have questions? Leave them in any comment box and I will get back to you in 24 hours.
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Hello Gary, thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm starting a raised bed garden and I just ordered a bunch of different lettuce and tomato seeds. Do you know of a method on how to store seeds for long periods of time?
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Thanks Gary, I never have any luck with lettuce seed or corn salad, lets try again.
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Hi Gary. Can I directly sow these outside in the sun and move them to shade when they sprout? Or is that a bad idea? Thank you!
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when I plant my lettuce the seedling stem like melts away and it falls off what is that from I lost a lot of seedlings that way and it's a waste of time could it be to much water?
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Great Vid, thanks. You've a nice voice as well. How about opening the seed package upside down.? That way it retains its name also how about dating the seeds with a year and organizing them with the last planted first in zip lock of say, lettuce. That way next year they can go to micro greens. Personally I germinate all seeds in very shallow fine medium then move them with a chopstick to bigger pots one by one. That way I don't waste soil if the germination is low. When I transplant I move on the soil for micro greens.
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if you plant them later in the garden they ll grow bigger cz the roots getting more place~
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Just planted arugula, lettucs, and carrots and it's Oct in FL is that a bad time to start out seeds outdoors?
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I just planted lettuce seeds in end of July....it is 95 degrees day and about 75 night. Was this a bad idea? Will the seeds grow indoors? Right now they are outside.
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Hello Gary! I'm wondering if you can put all 3 of them in the same container when growing them on a balcony or inside? Are they good for each other? I'm new to gardening, and it's still very confusing for me to know what to grow with what?
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Hi Gary, Maybe I am not listening to your videos close enough, but I notice that you always have the epsom salt on your work table. What do you use it for?
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Thanks so much. Let's hope we have a great season. God bless 😉
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Hi, love your videos BTW.
How many weeks do I grow my lettuce indoors before I can plant them in my garden? -
hey, Gary, how is your corn salad ? do you have a video on that little veggie ?
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Thanks for your tips! But what is the internet site you refer to, You say it too fast for my untrained ear! :.)
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This method is a lot better than the rake in method. I usually end up picking up most of the seeds trying to rake them into the soil.
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This method is a lot better than the rake in method. I usually end up picking up most of the seeds trying to rake them into the soil.
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I planted spinach at about the same time I did the tomatoes (which was at the end of my spring, beginning of my summer) and they were growing so cutely! But, then, the weather remembered it was summer and summer's supposed to be hot (and I didn't know spinach and other green vegetables like cool weather more than they like hot one), so they are all flaccid and developing little flower-like thingies and stopped producing leaves. :( It's so sad! I was so excited that something had FINALLY worked out at the first try and so well (7 or the 8 seeds I planted germinated and were growing well)! But, summer killed them, so I guess I'll just watch them die and then try again when the cool weather begin. u_uU
As for lettuce, we're not very big fans of it (we're trying to eat more, but we don't like salads just like that, so it's hard to eat lettuce; we usually eat spinach and Swiss chard ("acelga" in Spanish) in a pudding-like version that's hot and eaten along with rice or noodles or mashed potatoes), but I might try to grow one someday just to see if we eat it more that way, LOL.
Arugula ("rúcula" in Spanish) is kinda terrible for me. Every time I eat just a tiny bit of it, its flavour stays inside my throat and mouth all day long and I even smell it in my nose for the whole day... x_x Sometimes, it also makes my stomach upset, so I can't really eat it. >.< My mom liked it better than lettuce because of its smaller leaves, but... ^^U
Oh well. Thanks for showing us this! If I ever plant lettuces, I'll be sure to follow your advice, sensei! :D And, hopefully, next time I try spinach, I'll manage to plant them when the weather is right! T_T
Hugs!
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