Hydroponic Lettuce

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I post a picture and just a few words.

One of the things that came in my first produce delivery box was a head of hydroponically grown lettuce. It came packaged with this little disk and with the roots still intact, so after I made a salad last night, I decided to see if I could regrow some lettuce.

So I stuck it into a jar and we’ll see what happens.

(That’s a jar that originally held commercial canned peaches. Although you can’t use them for canning, I find these kinds of jars to be quite useful for holding pantry ingredients or making yogurt. A word of warning, though: if your jar held something like tomato sauce or pickles, you’ll need to wash it well and let it sit in the sun until the odor disappears. Otherwise whatever you put into the jar will taste faintly of tomato sauce or pickles!)

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Laura

Wednesday 4th of June 2014

It's been about a week... any signs of growth?

Kristen

No! It died. I don't know if I got the roots too wet or what. Oh well-it was worth a try.

Wendy

Tuesday 27th of May 2014

THAT'S how you get the scent out of jars! I've always recycled them because I could never get the scent out. Thanks for the tip, even if it wasn't the point of your post :)

Good luck with your lettuce!

Wednesday 28th of May 2014

Yep, the sunshine works great for me! If it's a pickle jar, sometimes it does take a few days in the sun.

Trish

yeah, Dave is right - maybe throw in a bit of miracle gro. also, get a straw , and once a day or so, bubble some air into the water. I worked a lot with hydroponics in college- the oxygen in the water can become depleted over time.

Janknitz

You can do the same thing with the root end of green onions and they will grow a new green onion.

Yes! We've had great luck with doing that.

Charity

I've heard of large systems that use fish ponds to provide the food for the plants and the plants help clean the water for the fish. I don't know if you have fish, but I wonder if it would work to suspend a plant like that over a beta or goldfish bowl?

Oh, that's a neat idea!

Don't throw your bread away!