Growing Lettuce
Hmmm..it seems that you girls out there want to try out this greenie lettuce heh??
Step 1 : I got my seed from Ace Hardware shop (or any hardware shop in the mall).. Funny though, for something so soft like this, you find the seeds in a HARDware shop...well, go to the end of the shop, you will find a gardening section. They sell tomato seeds, sun flower seeds, cucumber seeds, choy sum seeds, etc etc in small packet. Cheap. RM2 maybe.
Next -Soil. Good one would be the black organic soil. Next, get some pots suitable for planting vege..it has to be quite deep. I got myself a long small tub-looking plastic thing as I don't have the energy to transport it. I can't recall the exact cost, maybe RM 8. Well, if you have a plot of land to plant, then no need pots ler....
Step 2: Just plonk the seeds into the soil, and water the plants twice a day. They are forever so thirsty!!
Step 3: Sun it. Afternoon sun could be too hot if leave direct.
Step 4: Separate the tiny ones once they started shooting up to about an inch or so. They need space to grow.
Step 5 : Keep watering them twice a day. When you wash your rice, keep the water to water the plant. :P By the way, too much water might rot them, so I prefer them in pots so that I can 'transport' them if need be( if kena too much rain water, they tend to rot)
And by a month plus, you would be able to see the greeny leaves growing nicely and by 2.5 months or so, they should end up on your breakfast table then!
Good luck!
Step 1 : I got my seed from Ace Hardware shop (or any hardware shop in the mall).. Funny though, for something so soft like this, you find the seeds in a HARDware shop...well, go to the end of the shop, you will find a gardening section. They sell tomato seeds, sun flower seeds, cucumber seeds, choy sum seeds, etc etc in small packet. Cheap. RM2 maybe.
Next -Soil. Good one would be the black organic soil. Next, get some pots suitable for planting vege..it has to be quite deep. I got myself a long small tub-looking plastic thing as I don't have the energy to transport it. I can't recall the exact cost, maybe RM 8. Well, if you have a plot of land to plant, then no need pots ler....
Step 2: Just plonk the seeds into the soil, and water the plants twice a day. They are forever so thirsty!!
Step 3: Sun it. Afternoon sun could be too hot if leave direct.
Step 4: Separate the tiny ones once they started shooting up to about an inch or so. They need space to grow.
Step 5 : Keep watering them twice a day. When you wash your rice, keep the water to water the plant. :P By the way, too much water might rot them, so I prefer them in pots so that I can 'transport' them if need be( if kena too much rain water, they tend to rot)
And by a month plus, you would be able to see the greeny leaves growing nicely and by 2.5 months or so, they should end up on your breakfast table then!
Good luck!
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posted by blinka.Li at 2:58 PM
4 Comments:
yumyum!! i'd love to try it out...but perhaps not now as its the rainy season.
have to water twice a day and then have to make sure not to drown them. wah....fine balance wor. and then have to sun them but make sure don't bake them. hhhmmm...we don't give farmers enough credit. :-)
fashionAsia, Marsha M,
Actually, we just let it sits at the balcony! So it gets the sun without getting direct pouring rain!! SO EASY! :)
Thanks for the tutorial. I'd love to try and grow some. I'm not a green thumb, haha. But first I have to remember to buy the seeds.
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