‘Tis good to hear you are feeling better! I’m just very achy from all this ditch clearing - more stuff blew in* / into the ditch last night. :-(
*We got a scare last night: A tornadic storm had just passed slightly to our south, and I was looking out our back door at the heavy rain and lightning show, that direction, when suddenly a hard gust bent the buckeye tree out back way over toward the east - I almost expected it to snap or uproot - and then a few seconds later the wind reversed and the tree bent over maybe even a bit more, toward the west! Yikes! Crap was blowing all over the place too. But, a few more seconds, and then the wind slowed, reversed again, and was back from the west, but not as strong, then it gradually diminished to maybe 20 mph and we got, sort of oddly, just a few pieces of quarter size hail. Then that stopped and it just rained some more. Whew!
Thanks for the info. on the lettuce - if I run out of pots I could probably even make do for this experiment with used / cut down gallon milk jugs. :-)
The feeding makes sense, and I got lucky with picking up 2 extra boxes of Wally World knockoff “Miracle Grow” on clearance last fall - wifey thought I was nuts to buy 3 total, but now it looks like it was a good idea.
Regrowing the Romaine lettuce stumps seems like a good idea — Last year I had a head lettuce stump pop up out of the compost pile! I have two Baby Bok Choi stumps right now, to try that with, but in pots.
Oh, returning to the Muir lettuce - are those multiple stems in each section of the “4-pack” most likely individual plants from the vendor throwing 3-4 seeds into each section? (I’m showing my ignorance again, but every pic I found online of juvenile Muir lettuce plants showed single stems.)
I just grow a few lettuce varieties and romaine is one of them. I use a sharp scissors to cut the first head off, a few inches from the soil no more. It will regrow. I only do that once per plant.
Yes, each stem is an individual plant. Either snip the weaker ones and plant an individual plant, or plant them all together and see what happens. Or do some of both.
They would be more than happy in cut-down milk jugs - with drainage. Put the holes a few inches up from the bottom - of you put the holes on the bottom, and they’re sitting on a solid surface, they won’t drain properly.
That goes for bigger pots/planters, too. You don’t want plants getting water-logged. ;)
Hubby has a coworker that lives in Bardstown, KY, and all the rivers and creeks have overflowed, so the water level is quite high. He’s using a johnboat to get around in already, and the rain is still coming down. We’re saying our prayers for everyone’s safety. It’s a mess down there.
After things settle down, we will see if there’s a way we can help more directly.