How to Harvest Lettuce

Posted on Jul 27 2009 - 3:00am by Mike Lieberman

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Once your lettuce grows to be about 4-6 inches, you can safely harvest it and it will grow back again.

To harvest, simply place your thumb and pointer fingers about 2 inches above the soil and snap off the leaf. Place in your harvesting basket and continue.

It’ll likely take a week or so for your crop to grow again for another harvest.

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10 Comments so far. Feel free to join this conversation.

Goo July 28, 2009 at 8:32 am -

Lovely lettuces! I hope you've got a salad spinner. They're also an environmentally friendly option for drying out small items of clothing!
Mike Lieberman July 28, 2009 at 9:43 am -

Thanks for the comments Amanda. I've got the salad spinner and it gets put to plenty of use.
Goo July 28, 2009 at 3:32 pm -

Lovely lettuces! I hope you've got a salad spinner. They're also an environmentally friendly option for drying out small items of clothing!
Mike Lieberman July 28, 2009 at 4:43 pm -

Thanks for the comments Amanda. I've got the salad spinner and it gets put to plenty of use.
Sarah November 9, 2011 at 11:38 am -

Hi, Big fan here! I’m a beginner gardener and I have never grown lettuce before. About how many lettuce seeds do I need to sow if I wanted a salad every day? I live in Colorado so I am doing an indoor, winter, SIP container garden for now. I have lots of 3-5 gal buckets. I am guessing the succession planting would help as well? Thanks!
Mike Lieberman November 9, 2011 at 6:08 pm -

That’s what’s up Sarah! I usually plant one row and then another about 2 weeks later. You can likely stagger your containers like start a new container each week.

I usually drop about 2-3 seeds, then an inch or so apart another 2-3. As they grow, I’ll thin them out a bit.

Keep me updated!
Caitlin December 10, 2011 at 6:50 pm -

I was wandering if I could plant lettuce in the soda bottles? and is there any herbs or something i can grow in soda cans?
Mike Lieberman December 11, 2011 at 7:40 pm -

Lettuce would do well in the soda bottles. A single plant per bottle.

Not sure on the soda cans though.