{"id":64791,"date":"2023-01-19T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64791"},"modified":"2023-01-19T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:00:13","slug":"3-ways-to-grow-lettuce-even-if-you-dont-have-a-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64791","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways to Grow Lettuce Even if You Don\u2019t Have a Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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3 Ways to Grow Lettuce Even if You Don\u2019t Have a Garden<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Fresh salad is a recommended mainstay of healthy eating. But, salad can get expensive. Lettuce seeds, however, are cheap. You can grow lettuce, throughout the year, even if you don\u2019t have a garden with one of these three indoor techniques.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re new to indoor gardening, lettuce\u00a0or herbs<\/a>\u00a0are great plants to start with. Herbs, because a small amount is all you need for a meal and there are lots of potted herbs for sale. Lettuce, because you can start it from seed and it\u2019ll keep coming back for many month\u2019s of salad harvests. Even better, there are a ton of different lettuce varieties, in different colors, available too. So salads don\u2019t have to be green and bland when you grow lettuce yourself.<\/p>\n

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In this article, we are covering three different, indoor growing methods to grow lettuce. Each technique has a discussion of the tools and materials needed, and it\u2019s benefits and ease or difficulty of set-up. If these methods seem difficult, there are always\u00a0microgreens<\/a>, and\u00a0sprouts<\/a>, that can also help keep your salad bowl full throughout the year. Whether you grow lettuce, or sprouts, or microgreens, all can add tasty nutrition to salads, sandwiches, and all your meals throughout the year.<\/p>\n

First off, make sure you have some lettuce seeds. A quick look at Richter\u2019s herbs, reveals 12 different lettuce varieties from speckled to red, and from smooth leaved to oak-leaf varieties. Other seed companies, especially those specializing in heirloom varieties, will have similar ranges of lettuces. Even a 1$ package of green lettuce from the dollar store, or hardware store, can work to get started with.<\/picture>\n

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3 Ways to Grow Lettuce Even if You Don\u2019t Have a Garden Fresh salad is a recommended mainstay of healthy eating. But, salad can get expensive. Lettuce seeds, however, are cheap. You can grow lettuce, throughout the year, even if you don\u2019t have a garden with one of these three indoor techniques. If you\u2019re new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1912,33596,33595],"class_list":["post-64791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food-production","tag-joybilleefarm","tag-lettuce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64792,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64791\/revisions\/64792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}