How to Make a Indoor Lettuce Planter

Lettuce is a very beautiful plant. People often only think of it as only a vegetable, but it actually makes an interesting indoor plant. The textures and colors that the different variety of lettuce lends to your decorum is not to be overlooked. At the same time, this method puts fresh, organic lettuce at your hands anytime you prefer!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Nice planter, medium sized
• potting soil
• various lettuce seeds
• kitchen scissors

1. Select a beautiful planter. You should decide which room you want the lettuce planter in, you can coordinate your planter based on that if you'd like. Or you could keep it somewhat neutral to be able to alternate between rooms as you'd like.

2. You now should choose a variety of different lettuces. Leaf lettuce (as opposed to head lettuce) should be chosen for the visual texture it provides. There are so many different types of leaf lettuce. Some are a light green color, while others are dark vibrant green and some are a beautiful deep red. You can keep each lettuce to its own planter or you can mix it up for variety.

3. Fill your planter full of the potting soil to within a couple of inches of the top. spread the seeds across the soil and then cover with a very shallow amount of soil. Typically 1/4 of an inch is plenty of dirt to cover lettuce seeds. After you cover with dirt, water just enough to settle the dirt well and moisten the soil. Remember the goal is not to saturate the dirt, that can cause your seeds to rot.

4. Place in a sunny or well lit area. Lettuce planters work really well as a table centerpiece. You can also place them in various other areas of your house. Continue to water as the lettuce grows.

5. When your lettuce plant grows nearly a foot high, you could cut it. If you decide to cut it, snip with a pair of kitchen scissors just above the ground, about 1 inch high. If you cut it this way, then your lettuce will typically start growing again.

Tips & Warnings

• This works exceptionally well during the cold weather or before you are able to begin planting outside. Especially if you get the Spring planting bug before it's time to plant outside.
• You can plant a few different planters and rotate the full one to the most visual point of the house for aesthetic purposes. Then after you cut the plant, rotate it to a nice less visual spot for recovery.

[mymukki]

on 9/22/2009 This is such a great idea

[SeventhSibling]

on 4/9/2009 I never thought of lettuce as a plant for decor purposes. What a great idea!