Container Garden Lettuce You can grow lettuce quite handily in a container, says show host Kim Haworth, but she recommends starting with nursery seedlings, not lettuce seed. This is the planting procedure she recommends: - Use a terra cotta pot with a wide rim, and cover the drain hole with rocks or a piece of window screen.
- Fill the pot with good potting soil, leaving enough room at the top so you can easily water the lettuce later.
- Plant small lettuce plants in the soil. Three per pot is ideal. Water thoroughly when you're done.
If bugs attack your lettuce, don't use an insecticide -- this is a food crop. Instead, opt for an insecticidal soap. To protect the plants from heat, which they don't like, bend a coat hanger into two arches to place over the lettuce (figure A). Cover the arches with a piece of old bedsheet, but don't let it touch the plants.
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