How Do You Plant Lettuce In A Container?
Even if you don’t have a backyard big enough for a garden, you can still grow vegetables. In fact, when others are outside getting messy in their gardens, you can grow your vegetables out on your patio in neat containers. Lettuce is a cool-weather vegetable that should be planted in the early spring. Most varieties mature only a few weeks after planting. Sowing your lettuce seeds in containers just after the final winter thaw can yield you a bountiful, healthy harvest for your favorite salads. Fill a planting pot 3/4 full with potting soil. A 6- to 10-inch pot is large enough, but you can grow more heads in even bigger containers. Open a packet of lettuce seeds. Lettuce seeds are too tiny to plant individually. Sprinkle the lettuce seeds evenly over the top of the soil. Sprinkle a 1/8-inch layer of potting soil over the lettuce seeds. Mist the seeds lightly with water from a spray bottle. Keep the soil moist throughout the germination process, which should take seven to 10 days. Set th
