A new round of LUL was started to day. The last round went well with the lettuce producing till it got to the point of being overgrown, unmanageable and matured to the point of becoming slightly bitter. The remaining goldfish is still kicking and it appears that the ammonia it helped produce was enough to keep the lettuce fed. I didn’t weigh my harvests but the single 13″x26″ float tray gave us enough lettuce and then some once it got to the point of producing. Of course if we were liked salad everyday it would not have been near enough for the 2-3 of us that eat here regularly. As it is we like salad 1-2x a week at most.
A new seeding went in today, this time in coir. So far it appears that it will be lighter than the soilless mix I used last time. Whether or not it will wick enough water remains to be seen. I’ve never worked with this medium before.
The seed I have been using is the Burpee Gourmet Blend mix. It contains seed of Grand Rapids, Royal Oak Leaf, Salad Bowl, Red Salad Bowl and Ruby. A nice mix of greens and reds. The package says it takes about 45 days from sowing to harvest. I find that to be for mature plants though. I tend to seed thickly so there are several harvests of thinnings along the way to the 45 day mark.
I decided to go ahead and do another sowing inside even though I have a cold frame almost ready to plant. I may end up transplanting some of the thinnings to the cold frame as a test to see how they do.
