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- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Chioggia beet - sowing and growing
- Cos lettuce - sowing and growing
- Butter beans - sowing and growing
- Climbing zucchini - sowing and growing
- Liquorice mint - sowing and growing
- Yellomato - sowing and growing
- Marigold - sowing and growing
- Cucumber - sowing and growing
- Cilantro - sowing and growing
- Bibb lettuce - sowing and growing
- NZ spinach - sowing and growing
- Indian cress - sowing and growing
- Bok choi - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Snow pea - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Baby pumpkin - sowing and growing
- Radish - sowing and growing
- Arugola - sowing and growing
- Chard - sowing and growing
- Romano pole bean - sowing and growing
- Bacon bean - sowing and growing
- Spinach
- Bush bean - sowing and growing
- Stem lettuce - sowing and growing
- Sugar snap - sowing and growing
- Lamb's lettuce - sowing and growing
- Winter pea - sowing and growing
- Winter purslane - sowing and growing
- Winter lettuce - sowing and growing
- Carrot - sowing and growing
- Purple carrot - sowing and growing
- Sunflower - sowing and growing
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- Seeds of the MM Garden
- Planty Sowing Calendar
- Are our seeds organic?
- What does F1 mean on the seeds of Planty Gardening?
- African marigold - sowing and growing
- Asian salad mix - sowing and growing
- Endive - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Bush tomato
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Beet - sowing and growing
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Chioggia beet - sowing and growing
- Cos lettuce - sowing and growing
- Butter beans - sowing and growing
- Climbing zucchini - sowing and growing
- Liquorice mint - sowing and growing
- Yellomato - sowing and growing
- Marigold - sowing and growing
- Cucumber - sowing and growing
- Cilantro - sowing and growing
- Bibb lettuce - sowing and growing
- NZ spinach - sowing and growing
- Indian cress - sowing and growing
- Bok choi - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Snow pea - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Baby pumpkin - sowing and growing
- Radish - sowing and growing
- Arugola - sowing and growing
- Chard - sowing and growing
- Romano pole bean - sowing and growing
- Bacon bean - sowing and growing
- Spinach
- Bush bean - sowing and growing
- Stem lettuce - sowing and growing
- Sugar snap - sowing and growing
- Lamb's lettuce - sowing and growing
- Winter pea - sowing and growing
- Winter purslane - sowing and growing
- Winter lettuce - sowing and growing
- Carrot - sowing and growing
- Purple carrot - sowing and growing
- Sunflower - sowing and growing
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How to sow and grow lamb's lettuce
Lamb's lettuce is a great vegetable for late fall, winter, and early spring. Ideal for the empty square patches in your garden box at the end of summer.
What is lamb's lettuce?
Lamb's lettuce is a leafy vegetable. It is related to valerian- so, it's not actually lettuce. Since we don't have any other valerians in the Planty Garden, we classify it as a leaf vegetable. If you want to sow in a patch that already had lettuce or another leaf vegetable in it - go for it.
Since it is cold-resistant, you can sow lamb's lettuce in summer for fall and winter harvests.
Lamb's lettuce is also delicious, especially in a salad.
Since it is cold-resistant, you can sow lamb's lettuce in summer for fall and winter harvests.
Lamb's lettuce is also delicious, especially in a salad.
Tasty and healthy
Lamb's lettuce leaves are great for you. They contain vitamins and minerals like vitamin K, A, C, B11 (folic acid), iron, and beta-carotene, which protects your body from the sun's UV rays.
Lamb's lettuce is also one of the few vegetables that contains a lot of omega 3. Winter purslane is another.
Lamb's lettuce is also one of the few vegetables that contains a lot of omega 3. Winter purslane is another.
More about our lamb's lettuce seeds
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What do you need to grow your own lamb's lettuce?
Here's everything you need:
- a 30x30 cm patch with airy, nutrient-rich soil mix
- lamb's lettuce seeds
- a place with at least 4 hours of sunlight a day
In other words, an MM-Mini, or a square patch in one of our garden boxes, filled with MM-Mix.
Growing your own lamb's lettuce in this perfect soil mix is super easy. If you use poor-quality (potting) soil, it's much harder and the results will be disappointing. So just go for the best.
Growing your own lamb's lettuce in this perfect soil mix is super easy. If you use poor-quality (potting) soil, it's much harder and the results will be disappointing. So just go for the best.
How do you sow and grow lamb's lettuce?
Lamb's lettuce is included in the free Planty Gardening app. Use it, and you'll get step-by-step guidance from seed to harvest.
Each plant goes through a number of stages - we call them levels. The app tells you exactly what to do at each level and checks in when your plants are ready for the next one.
So you don't need to know how to grow lamb's lettuce in advance: the app takes you through every step.
But if you'd like to read more about those steps, here's what the process looks like:
Each plant goes through a number of stages - we call them levels. The app tells you exactly what to do at each level and checks in when your plants are ready for the next one.
So you don't need to know how to grow lamb's lettuce in advance: the app takes you through every step.
But if you'd like to read more about those steps, here's what the process looks like:
Level 1: Sowing lamb's lettuce
Choose a square patch at the front of your garden box. Loosen up the damp MM-Mix and sow like this:
- poke 9 holes in the patch (no deeper than 1 cm)
- put 3 to 4 seeds in each hole
- carefully cover up the holes with soil mix
After about 2 to 3 weeks, you'll see something green come up. It depends a bit on the weather.
Level 2: Lamb's lettuce seedlings
As soon as you see the first seedlings, you know things are going well. They probably won't all come up at once, but give it another week.
Then it's time for the next level.
Then it's time for the next level.
Level 3: No thinning necessary
Lamb's lettuce plants remain small, so if clusters of seedlings come up, you can just leave them there. No need to thin them out.
If you see spots where nothing came up, sow a few more seeds.
If you see spots where nothing came up, sow a few more seeds.
Level 4: Caring for your lamb's lettuce
After a week or 2, your seedlings will become small plants.
There's not much for you to do in the coming month: if the weather's dry, give them some water and remove the odd dead or yellow leaf. Easy 🙂
They grow easily and you won't have any problem with pests.
There's not much for you to do in the coming month: if the weather's dry, give them some water and remove the odd dead or yellow leaf. Easy 🙂
They grow easily and you won't have any problem with pests.
Level 5: Harvesting
This level starts 9 to 10 weeks after sowing: the plants are ready for the first harvest.
You can harvest in 2 ways.
Option 1:
Cut or pick the individual leaves. As long as you leave the heart of the little plants, new leaves will appear. This way you can keep harvesting for a few weeks.
Option 2:
Cut off the plants 2 cm above the soil mix. The plants will grow back after 3 weeks and you can harvest again.
You can harvest in 2 ways.
Option 1:
Cut or pick the individual leaves. As long as you leave the heart of the little plants, new leaves will appear. This way you can keep harvesting for a few weeks.
Option 2:
Cut off the plants 2 cm above the soil mix. The plants will grow back after 3 weeks and you can harvest again.
What do you use lamb's lettuce for?
I like lamb's lettuce best raw in a salad. You can also add a handful of leaves to a green smoothie. There aren't many other fresh greens available in the winter, so it's a real treat.
When the plants start to flower, the leaves become coarse and bitter. Toss them in a stew or stir fry.
Level 6 and 7: The last levels
Keep harvesting your lamb's lettuce until the plants start to flower. Then the leaves get a more bitter flavor and just won't be as nice.
The last level: empty your lamb's lettuce patch and get ready to sow something new.
The last level: empty your lamb's lettuce patch and get ready to sow something new.
In a cold frame or greenhouse
Lamb's lettuce does well in a cold frame or unheated greenhouse. If you grow with those, you can sow in winter.
The photo below is of lamb's lettuce growing in April. Sown in December.
It took a long time for them to come up, but when they did, the plants grew faster than in the garden box outside. The leaves were more tender and stayed that way longer too.
The photo below is of lamb's lettuce growing in April. Sown in December.
It took a long time for them to come up, but when they did, the plants grew faster than in the garden box outside. The leaves were more tender and stayed that way longer too.
So: how about growing your own lamb's lettuce?
It's a tasty and easy vegetable to grow, perfect for when most of your vegetable patches are empty in those colder months. And you don't have to worry about slugs or pests.
Plus: our materials and app make it almost impossible to fail 🙂
Order your lamb's lettuce seeds here or get started with a complete starter kit:
Plus: our materials and app make it almost impossible to fail 🙂
Order your lamb's lettuce seeds here or get started with a complete starter kit:
Enjoy!
About our seeds
- Seeds of the MM Garden
- Planty Sowing Calendar
- Are our seeds organic?
- What does F1 mean on the seeds of Planty Gardening?
- African marigold - sowing and growing
- Asian salad mix - sowing and growing
- Endive - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Bush tomato
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Beet - sowing and growing
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Chioggia beet - sowing and growing
- Cos lettuce - sowing and growing
- Butter beans - sowing and growing
- Climbing zucchini - sowing and growing
- Liquorice mint - sowing and growing
- Yellomato - sowing and growing
- Marigold - sowing and growing
- Cucumber - sowing and growing
- Cilantro - sowing and growing
- Bibb lettuce - sowing and growing
- NZ spinach - sowing and growing
- Indian cress - sowing and growing
- Bok choi - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Snow pea - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Lettuce - sowing and growing
- Baby pumpkin - sowing and growing
- Radish - sowing and growing
- Arugola - sowing and growing
- Chard - sowing and growing
- Romano pole bean - sowing and growing
- Bacon bean - sowing and growing
- Spinach
- Bush bean - sowing and growing
- Stem lettuce - sowing and growing
- Sugar snap - sowing and growing
- Lamb's lettuce - sowing and growing
- Winter pea - sowing and growing
- Winter purslane - sowing and growing
- Winter lettuce - sowing and growing
- Carrot - sowing and growing
- Purple carrot - sowing and growing
- Sunflower - sowing and growing