Harvesting Korean red leaf lettuce (Leaf lettuce maturity) – Korean red leaf lettuce growing

How to grow Korean red leaf lettuce in open-field cultivation. This time, I want to harvest Korean red leaf lettuce. (Full grown Korean red leaf lettuce plant.)

Harvesting Korean red leaf lettuce

Korean leaf lettuce was planted in mid-April after preparing the soil in late March. (Best time to plant Korean leaf lettuce is spring.)

Preparing the soil for Korean red leaf lettuce
Create leaf lettuce bed and mulch
Korean red leaf lettuce seed sowing

We thinned the Korean red leaf lettuce once in mid-May. (Korean red leaf lettuce plant care.) Thin the plants so there is one Korean leaf lettuce per hole in the mulch.

Thinning the Korean red leaf lettuce
Thinned Korean red leaf lettuce greens

This year, the rainy season came early, and there was a lot of rain, so the leaf lettuce leaves got damaged. Also, pests ate the leaves, so there are fewer leaves, but they are somehow surviving.

This year, many Korean red leaf lettuce leaves are damaged
Bug bites on Korean red leaf lettuce

Harvest Korean leaf lettuce leaves when they are about 20cm (8 in.) long, picking the outer leaves first.

Harvest Korean leaf lettuce from the outer leaves
Pick the leaves from the base
Harvested Korean red leaf lettuce

If you leave 5-6 leaves in the center, they will grow bigger, and you can harvest them again. You can keep harvesting while growing Korean red leaf lettuce, so it’s cost-effective.

If you leave the leaves, you can harvest again

Following is the video for how-to. English subtitles are available.

Harvesting Korean red leaf lettuce (Leaf lettuce maturity) – Korean red leaf lettuce growing – YouTube