Lettuce de Gisette glog

Yes, the heatwave seeds are all mixed together. Perhaps I'm just goofy, but I sort the seeds by visible appearance and kinda plant similar-looking ones in the same pod. It is better not to have looseleaf and romaine types sharing a pod... and there are some lettuces in that mix that have hooked leaves that get tangled on everything...

You'll work it out. That's part of the fun.

Stonecold - Evergreen Seeds is where I got the Korean Red Curl. They've just been kinda going in and out of business for some reason.

Ironhalo - I'll also chime in, if you don't mind.

I haven't grown Bibb or Butterhead lettuces, because they form heads. For head-forming, you'd want only one plant per pod, and then wait until whole head ready, then crop completely. End of AG grow, time to replant all pods. (It doesn't work too well to restart some of the pods with lettuce seed while other pods are mature.) I prefer the perpetual salad concept, where I'm munching along the way, and have to replant the AG once every 2.5 - 4 months when the lettuces bolt. Or... maybe you could grow Bibb and Butterhead and pick leaves along the way... dunno.

The brassicas Mary likes aren't as productive as lettuces. (Though I grow some of those, too.)

So I like looseleaf reds and greens and romaines best, and they do grow best ~3 per pod, so plant 5 seeds and if need be, thin to 3. The red romaines are especially sweet and crunchy like the head lettuces. (Very important not to grow more than 3 per pod, though - they get very spindly when crowded, or if planted in the same pod with looseleaf.)

I've usually planted mixed lettuces, so don't know many by individual name. Burpee's lettuce heatwave looseleaf mix is very good. Our Korean Red Curl may be hard to find.

Looseleaf you can generally start eating in 3 weeks. Romaines in 4 weeks, but then they last longer. They need cool (always under 75 degrees) to do their best. If your house gets warmer, or they're in a working kitchen (baking happens), you might want to stick to romaines. Most romaines can take some heat without bolting too fast.

Hope some of that's useful.

ironhalo,

I am growing a mixed salad green garden so might chip in a little with my own experience which is not as deep as Peat, Gisette and BB.

I had help my Mom with her SS6 end of Jan and we thrown in 1 pod of salad green with 5 pods of herb for fun and it grows okay on AG herb tablets.  After 4-5 weeks it has about 5 plants but the weakness tend to die every so often and this week, 3 months after planting, it bolted and the 3rd last died so I pulled the pod. 

I started my own SS6 Apr 7 with 3 pods of Salad Greens, 1 pod of arugula from my own seeds, 1 pod of custom mesclun and a week later did a pod of grand rapid lettuce, this one on rockwool.  Arugula and mesclun grew slower than the salad greens but have better taste.  I put about 6 seeds in each custom pods and all germinated for arugula and mesclun.  The Salad green had 8-9 germinate for each pod and I think it might be a little too high since at 3 weeks, they are still a bit floopy and spindly where someone else had about 6 salad green in one pod germinate seems much healthier at the same timeframe.  Depending on the germination rate of your, i would not put that much in and would be tempted to put less and throw a few more seeds in if germination proved low..  I would probably aim for 4 maximum 5 next time I plant my own greens.

Interesting. Yeah, actually, one of the KRC's many tolerances is a wide range of nutrient regimes. If the thing only bolted, it might take over the world, huh? But we like it not bolting. My KRC sharing an AG3 with older romaines is growing very slow and pale. But, it grows.

I found every time I grew lettuce with AG tabs, they grew so fast they ran out of nutes before the first 2 week feeding, so I give them a dab of Flora Gro or Micro or just fast-forward the feeding schedule.

LOL! I know what you mean on the other-people's-plants. I've got 18 marigolds and 6 nasturtiums under development to decorate the condo business office, plus sundry vegetables for Mom and neighbors. Have fun taking your planting day off!

Could be! Hard to tell without a picture. Almost hard to tell with a picture, since it's such a plastic plant - reconfigures itself to whatever conditions I've set it in, so far. Different leaf color, thickness, texture, size...

Nice, Beth - should be ready to start munching soon! I hope to see pictures sometime, if you've time to share!

How old are they now, Beth? Growing well?

I'm trying one outside now. It's very red!!!

If you keep all the falling-down outer curl leaves religiously pruned, and the nutes set for seedlings instead of adult curl, most greens will probably work. Any way you could move the two curls next to each other? Or possibly into an outrider... they do remarkably well just sitting next to my pro100 in a small tub of growrocks. Losing a few roots here and there probably wouldn't much fuss them. The solar blanket to include the outriders in the pro100 lightspace, helps a lot.

Tendergreen mustard grows as fast as toy choi :  ~ 4 weeks to maturity, for a bigger plant. Komatsuna is slower, and a really weak competitor. Avoid romaines sandwiched between red curls - they're a bit slower to get started and go gangly if they have to stretch for light - they'll turn into crawling vines. The heatwave mix is half romaines.