Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: violet61 on June 11, 2009, 10:05
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Has any1 transplanted a shop bought living lettuce successfully? thinking of doing that but dont want 2 kill it!! Cheers!
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Violet, what exactly do you mean by living lettuce. Do supermarkets sell lettuce in pots. Or do you mean the lettuce from the salad shelf in a packet. Or am I being incredibly dense and everyone except me knows what a living lettuce plant is? :D
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When you find out, Sheila, let me know!
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Hi
I think some supermarkets sell lettuce in a small pot of compost, so you can 'cut and come again' and they last for longer, in a simular way to the little pots of herbs you can often buy.
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Hello, a lot of supermarkets sell lettuces like Lauren said, supposedly they last about 10days, last year I harvested all summer, just thought I might try transplanting into a trough! I ve also planted a few supermarket herb pots few weeks ago & they look brill! :)Anyway I've transplanted lettuce & they look ok, will let you know what happens! Probably be dead by morning! :ohmy:
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My local supermarket sells lettuce plants which were grown in rockwool cubes - and given the complete absence of earth I assume they were grown using hydroponics, and as such I doubt that those would transition to a life in soil very well :(
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Oh thats a shame :( mine were in soil, from the local A*di store, the lettuce ones look ok, the pak choi is looking a bit sorry for its self! :ohmy: They have it in As*a & I think I've seen it in Tes**!
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so let me get this right! i can buy lettuces in the supermarket, bring them home and plant them in my veggie plot (which i nagged daddy for and haven't done anything with) and then tell him i grew them?
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naughty TMG, worth a go isnt it? :D :D
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I've just had a flash of inspiration. Bet no one's thought of this.
Take one plant pot. Fill with compost. Add a few seed. Cover seed, water & stand well back.
You never know - it may catch on.
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Ah...theres a thought ;) Darn sight cheaper too :D
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And no profit for Tesc*.
Unless you buy your seed & compost from there!
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i tried unsuccessfully to hoodwink him last year with tomato's, mine shriveled up when i forgot to water them so i bought a big plant with loads of toms on from Morrisons, when i asked him how he knew he said the £3.99 Morrisons label on the pot gave it away :(
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Lesson learned for this year (and hide the carrier bag too)
(oh and CHEATER CHEATER!!)
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I bought a tray of living sald leaves in the discount section potted it all on in a big pot have been picking sald leaves off it for a month now
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I've just had a flash of inspiration. Bet no one's thought of this.
Take one plant pot. Fill with compost. Add a few seed. Cover seed, water & stand well back.
You never know - it may catch on.
:D :D :D Inspirational.
I am gob smacked never seen these pots of living lettuce, you live and learn. What sort of price do they charge for these? I know you can dig up a lettuce and replant which is useful to slow down the growth if you have a glut. It stunts them for a while. If thats any help Violet.
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I've got 4 troughs of salad leaves, but unfortunately none are ready yet :(, fancied salad 4 tea, but hate prepacked bag things, only option was floppy round thing or these living salad things, it was when I got home I thought.... :unsure: "plant, multiply, twice as much!" so we had egg fried rice instead & I planted them today, oh & had some for tea 2nite! cost 99p & from the "other" cheap place begining with "L"! not the "A" place as previously mentioned! As planting lettuce I guess expensive, but cheaper than a bag stuff!