If you purchase a “living lettuce”, either at a local grocery store (I bought the one in the photo at Sobeys) or at a market, you can get a second, smaller crop under a single fluorescent tube or LED strip light, the type we use to start bedding plants. After you cut off the leaves to make a salad, plant the living root into a small pot with some potting mix and give it a wee bit of fertilizer or work some worm castings into the mix before planting. In 3-4 weeks, the leaves migh [...]
