Growing Salad Leaves In Guttering

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Growing salad leaves in guttering.

Suitable salad greens for cut and come again treatment include any of the looseleaf or mesclun blends which might contain salads such as lettuce endive and arugula or rocket. Water with a fine spray at first but when the seedlings are taller and stronger take the rose off the can and direct water beneath the leaves until the compost is soaked. Salads start when the plants are 8 10cm 3 4in tall which could be in as little as six to eight weeks. How to grow salad leaves in guttering.

Monday 27 may 2019 at 10 56 am. Saw the guttering to a manageable size and remove any ends. A table displaying which months are best to sow plant and harvest. Once each root grows a healthy set of roots and leaves plant it in a container of potting soil.

Leave the center leaves to grow. Find out how to grow salad leaves in guttering in our video guide. By bbc gardeners world magazine. Lettuce is a great crop through fall and container gardening works anywhere especially small spaces.

From now on keep the surface of the container moist. As the new plant grows harvest the outer leaves for salads or cooking. Fill the guttering with moist peat free multi purpose compost and gently firm down. Replace each end with a large piece of gaffa tape.

See our article with three simple steps accompanied with a video demonstration. Remove the largest outer leaves if any cut off about a third of the root and set the flat cut end in the bowl. To grow cut and come again salad greens you will need good quality potting soil some seeds and of course a container with drainage holes.