This is how I store lettuce

[snoozy]

Of course, the best way is to just pick it as you need it out of your garden, but for storebought lettuce this works great: alia.link/2019/12/16/make-lettuce-immortal-again/

[feather]

Nice article, and I loved the pictures, all of them.
I go through so much romaine each day/week that in the winter I have to buy it. I have no doubt growing it from the roots of store bought works if you are willing to wait for it.

We did an experiment here a few years ago with celery. In the early spring, we planted the bottoms of our celery we were buying. When spring arrived, we planted those out in the garden. At the same time, our gardening friend gave us some celery started from seed. We planted those in another garden. At mid summer and into fall, there was no difference in the height or widths of stalks or vigor between the two types of plantings. Everything had grown to 2 feet tall, lots of celery!

Since then, we've grown our own celery from seed, which is terrifically easy. Since we don't buy celery often (we don't have the celery butt/foot available) at all for eating, mostly for dehydrating and for soups and stews for flavor.

This is celery and romaine bottoms planted in early spring.


This is celery at near 2 feet tall.


We're going to start winter sown seeds in January...and will have potting soil available, so I'll give the romaine butt/foot, another try. Thanks for your article, very nice.

[snoozy]

I'll have to try growing celery from stumps!