Hi everyone, it's gardening time again!
I always have a difficult time with starting my lettuce plants indoors. This year I took a new approach which was more successful than previous years. Here's the details...
I'm using those modular plastic seed starting things with 6 cells per 5 inch by 5 inch module, each filled with pre-moistened seed starting mix. Then I water each cell with a water & benolmyl solution to keep it safe from mildew & disease. Ok, that's my usual routine with all my plants starrted indoors.
The part I did different this year is that instead of using a tweezer to plant 3 or 4 lettuce seeds per cell, I spill out the seed on a flat surface and use my fingers to pinch a whole bunch of seeds and then gently push the whole bunch into the very top layer of soil for a given cell. The results were great becasue now I have about 6 to 10 sprouts in each cell. Then I used a pair of mini electrical diagonal cutters to snip out all but 2 sprouts in each cell.
Question is... How many lettuce sprouts should I allow to grow per cell?
---pete---