Red leaf lettuce cultivation report

Grow while eating A healthy and fun day is coming!

how do you do. I’m Gillian, the Red leaf lettuce fairy. Next to ham toast and corn soup, in sandwiches, in Caesar salads… there’s always lettuce. If you can eat that fresh, crunchy lettuce every day, I’m sure your days will be healthy and fun. Then why not try growing lettuce? Lettuce can be picked not only during the harvest period, but also while it’s growing, so every morning we bring freshly picked lettuce from the garden and cook it on the spot. The garden becomes the vegetable section of the supermarket. Well, this time, I will report on Red leaf lettuce, which grows extremely vigorously among such lettuce.

Red leaf lettuce“almost weekly” cultivation report

10/10start
Seed planting
Gillian
Red leaf lettuce seeds are long, thin pieces like this. Among them, sunny lettuce seeds are whitish.
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Red leaf lettuce, a highland vegetable, loves cold climates. Sowing will start in late autumn.
10/17
The first leaves have appeared!
Gillian
Look at this high germination rate! Among lettuce, this Red leaf lettuce is especially full of power.
10/24
True leaves come out
Gillian
And in the next week, true leaves appeared as early as possible. And this true leaf is already the lettuce leaf that everyone eats all the time. I’m still too small to eat
10/31
Leaves start to grow
Gillian
Red leaf lettuce leaves grow densely enough to fill the ground. Amazing growth power, right?
11/7
The leaves have a “like” color and shape!
Gillian
Red leaf lettuce’s peculiar, slightly brown ruffled leaves.
11/14
Grow together
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If you collect a lot of them, it looks like you can harvest them from a distance, but there is still a long way to go.
11/21
Growing into thick, delicious-looking leaves
Gillian
It makes me want to pour dressing over the top. But not yet. I’ll have to stop thinning out soon. Of course, you can eat the leaves you picked.
12/19
Coloring in good colors
Gillian
In December, when the wind feels cold, the dark color peculiar to Red leaf lettuce will be gradated. This is the first harvest period.
1/30
To flaming red leaves!
Gillian
The coldest time of the year. It’s a tough season for the red leaf lettuce, which has soft leaves, but it endures by making the leaves bright red like frostbite. From here on, growth will stop until spring, so for now, I’ll update once a month.
2/27
Withstand cold winter rains
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As expected, there are some leaves that wither, but you’re doing your best with such soft leaves, aren’t you?
3/20
Resume growth!
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Red leaf lettuce whose leaves gradually turn green in the spring sunshine. It seems that the experience of enduring the winter is reflected in the beauty of the color.
4/17
New leaves begin to emerge
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The red leaf lettuce has begun to release the energy it has accumulated during the winter.
5/22
It grows steadily! Extends upward
Gillian
In May, the red leaf lettuce begins to grow all at once. And above all, the growth of the leaf stem that I couldn’t see last year. The Red leaf lettuce is at its peak and harvest season.
6/19
Elongated stems and sprouts
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When spring passes, Red leaf lettuce passes the right time as a leaf vegetable.
7/10
Buds appear
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You’ve never seen a Red leaf lettuce like this before, have you? “You’re a cute little bud.”
7/17
Elongated flower stalks and large buds
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It has quite a lot of buds.
7/24
Flower stalk grows
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It spreads sideways, doesn’t it? “It’s like I’m giving you a thumbs up.” It has buds all over it.
8/14
Flowering!
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A very tiny yellow flower, about the size of a child’s little finger. And it’s a fleeting flower that ends in the morning. I don’t want to stand out too much.
8/21
Transform into a cotton hat!
Gillian
What a sunny lettuce, when the flowers are over, you can do a cotton hat. However, they are quite small, so rather than fluttering far away like a dandelion, when the seeds wither and fall, they fall a short distance from the parent flower. It’s not like you’re going to do something that’s quite elaborate even though you don’t stand out, right?
8/28
End
Gillian
When I saw the seeds turning into cotton hats and flying away, they quickly withered and fell off, as if their souls were gone. And in autumn, new sunny lettuce leaves grow around here again.

Red leaf lettuce cultivation point

The germination rate is high and the growth is fast, so you can look forward to the growth every day. The third leaf is already an edible lettuce leaf, so it’s fun to sow a lot of seeds and thin out the leaves little by little every week.

栽培難易度：★☆☆☆☆