Re: [fast5] Re: I buy too much food

It is WAY easier than anything I've done in the past. I've done several different SIPs, and they all worked for lettuce. Mostly it just wants to be wet and cool in the roots.

Also, it wants good fertilizer. The best one I've used to date is granular fish fertilizer. The liquid stuff is amazing too, but harder to use (you have to mix it, while the granular stuff you can just add to the soil). 

Doesn't seem to want much sun though. So if you have a north-facing balcony, that is just fine.

Starting the seed well makes a big difference in terms of "making it easy". The easiest way is to use an egg carton with potting soil. Plant one or two seeds ONLY in each spot, plus a few grains of fish fertilizer. Set the carton in a tray, and add water to the tray so it soaks up to the seed. Keep the egg carton wet. 

Then to plant the lettuce, just cut one egg section, with the plant, and put it in the new pot. Easy.

I'll get some pics of this too. I mention it because "transplanting seedlings" was always one of my least-fun things. I always planted too many seeds, and didn't want to kill the extras. Which made all of them not grow very well. This way is far easier.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Chantelle <chantelles@cox.net> wrote:

Wow, thanks for the link!
 will have to check that all out. It looks a LOT easier (and with built in way to irrigate) than what I had envisioned in terms of raised beds in the past.
Chantelle


On 7/7/10 11:56 AM, "Heather Twist" <HeatherTwist@gmail.com> wrote:
Here is a great idea for making an easy raised-bed sub-irrigation system. Lettuce really really likes SIPs!

 
http://www.insideurbangreen.org/2010/06/flexible-drain-pipe-sip-bed-.html


On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Chantelle <chantelles@cox.net> wrote:

That would be fun! Do you have a patio for any container gardening? I am testing out container gardening lettuce right now. So far so good. In my area one must build raised beds to grow their own stuff and since I am saving up to do that, I'm doing container gardening in the meantime.
chantelle

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