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Growing salad leaves in guttering.
It is best when growing mixes to find which salad leaves you like and then grow them individually in separate pots.
By bbc gardeners world magazine.
When the salad seeds germinate simply grow them on for two to four weeks and then slide the plants into their final.
The result would be that the mixture composition will change over time where the leaves that remain will become unbalanced.
Measure and mark for plant spacing from either end of the gutter with a tape measure and pencil.
Find out how to grow salad leaves in guttering in our video guide.
These days many containers are used to grow flowers herbs and vegetables including some for gutter garden ideas.
Grow salad leaves in full sun making sure the soil is well drained.
Space leaf lettuce every 4 inches loose headed varieties every 8 inches and firm headed.
Sowing seed of salad leaves in lengths of guttering can help keep your seedlings safe from slugs and snails and enable you to transplant the whole row into the soil as and when soil space becomes available.
Just make sure whatever you use has drainage holes.
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Guttering is cheap and widely available can be cut to whatever length you choose and contains just the right amount of soil.
Use a separate pot for peas or sow small patches of each crop in large containers or growing bags.
A table displaying which months are best to sow plant and harvest.
How to grow salad leaves in guttering.
You can also sow salad leaves in the garden.
Sow outdoors from mid spring to late summer putting.
If you re growing larger leaves for use in a mixed salad.
It is easier to take care of but you do need to look at it daily.
Sow indoors from february.
A couple of tips for growing lettuce in gutters.
Short 1m lengths of guttering are convenient and easy to handle.
They are particularly well suited to growing in containers growbags or even in salad bowls.
Watch our step by step video showing how to grow and harvest salad leaves with expert advice and top tips to help you complete the job with confidence.
No one knows who originated the idea of growing shallow rooted plants in a prepared gutter but it is a worthwhile undertaking.
In this way you can mix your own salad to your own preference without losing any additional crop.
Even a 25cm 10in pot can give the equivalent of several supermarket bags of salad leaves.