When Lettuce becomes a weed..
By sofs
@sofssu (23662)
December 16, 2018 8:08pm CST
I have heard many in the garden forum say one man's food is another mans weed... and here is an example of this.. I haven't been consuming as much lettuce as I used to do before. and they have bolted and gone to seed.
The seeds seems to fly five to fifteen feet further than where the mother plant is and gets into all other containers and is now acting like a weed..
Lettuce grows really fast and take up all the nutrition in the containers so I have to pick then out as soon as they grow a few leaves.
Now I hardly plant lettuce.. I just eat what grows naturally..
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
17 Dec 18
i love lettuce and even cabbage but these are not allowed for me.
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@sofssu (23662)
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17 Dec 18
@ridingbet Why do you have gout ? I have a lot of cabbages growing here too.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
18 Dec 18
@sofssu green leafy vegetables have Vitamin K, which is contraindicated for persons taking Coumadin.
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@allknowing (138075)
• India
18 Dec 18
I can relate to your story when it comes to curry leaves We have trees of that and saplings spread all over the garden.
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@allknowing (138075)
• India
18 Dec 18
@sofssu I am not sure a cutting will help The huge trees I have produce flowers followed by seeds and these seeds eaten by birds are responsible for those saplings.
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@sofssu (23662)
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18 Dec 18
@allknowing I wish i had curry leaf growing that way.. I have one plant that has remained the same size for three years.. and now I am trying to grow one from cutting
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@sofssu (23662)
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18 Dec 18
@allknowing I don't get seeds here.. so after much research found a few youtube videos on growing from cuttings.. so i am giving it a try.. so far so good.
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@RasmaSandra (80951)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Dec 18
I think it looks like a lovely lettuce. I have not eaten lettuce in a very long time. I used to enjoy having dandelion salads from dandelions in my garden back in Latvia.
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@sofssu (23662)
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17 Dec 18
@RasmaSandra I have never eaten dandelions.. we don't have those here..
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@sofssu (23662)
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18 Dec 18
@playertwo i do grow radishes from time to time..I have some growing right now.
@Lignitecityabishek96 (7119)
• Cuddalore, India
18 Dec 18
I would like to have more lettuce on burger and sandwich.
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@sofssu (23662)
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18 Dec 18
@Lignitecityabishek96 if you could be here you'd have lettuce not just on your burger but in all your food 
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@sofssu (23662)
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18 Dec 18
@Lignitecityabishek96 It wasn't so common here too until I started growing them
@Lignitecityabishek96 (7119)
• Cuddalore, India
18 Dec 18
@sofssu Here it's not common.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
18 Dec 18
Naturally as in what flew away that you didn't find? It doesn't grow wild around here or at least I've never heard of that before. Did you mean to say the seeds fly 5-15 feet away, or something else entirely?
I've not heard before that one man's food was anothere man's weed, but someone told me weeds are flowers growing where you don't want them and I supposed that could be said about green plants too. I say the same about trees that propogate where you don't want them, but I call those weed trees.
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nice.. we have a whole lot of them here..@sofssu (23662)
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19 Dec 18
@MarshaMusselman LOL i am such a dunce.. just edited that.. I Jus thought youwere being funny.. LOL thanks for ointing that out.. Typos and I bond well togther.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
18 Dec 18
@sofssu We have some trees that I consider to be weed trees even if they're growing in parks or yards because they spread so easily. Most people don't know the harm they can do and haven't a clue they should monitor their yards and gardens for them and root them out before they take hold.
The reason I asked about the five to fifteen is because you said fifteen to fifteen, not ten to fifteen. I thought maybe you'd peek to see why I said that. You must have just thought I was being weird or funny perhaps.
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
17 Dec 18
Because I have wide space and got some pet animals who may want lettuce leaves, its okay with me.
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@sofssu (23662)
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17 Dec 18
@ilocosboy I have limited space and cannot afford all containers to be filled with lettuce.
@sofssu (23662)
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18 Dec 18
@ilocosboy Yeah you do have a huge advantage, sometimes i wish i could have a garden on the ground instead of one three floors up lol
@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
17 Dec 18
That's my advantage,
Actually some vegetables are ready to harvest in the garden.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
17 Dec 18
Ha ha.. I went berserk at my brother's garden yesterday and got lots and lots of guess... Lettuce.
I wrote a post on it too and coincidentally while browsing came across this post of yours
Lettuce in common
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@sofssu (23662)
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17 Dec 18
@responsiveme I just saw it and responded to your post.. please come and take some lettuce .. from my garden too.. I offered some to my friend today and she just refused.
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@sofssu (23662)
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17 Dec 18
@responsiveme We don't eat too much pork.. Actually i have stopped eating years ago and the boys have shown a distinct dislike for it too.. I wish i could find a disk which uses lettuce.. LOL
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
17 Dec 18
@sofssu there is a pork dish with lettuce which we all like very much
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@sofssu (23662)
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17 Dec 18
@hillhjill and it does taste better than the other varieties i have..
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@hillhjill (23714)
• United States
17 Dec 18
@sofssu that's good, I love lettuce as well and now I want a salad lol.
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@shaqziad1610 (506)
• Malaysia
3 Jan 19
Oh I envy you. Send me those lettuces 
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I face the same problem actually. In my case it is the king's salad. It is a leafy herb, last month it produced seeds but I did not manage to save all seeds. The ones escaping now occupied half of my raised bed.
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I face the same problem actually. In my case it is the king's salad. It is a leafy herb, last month it produced seeds but I did not manage to save all seeds. The ones escaping now occupied half of my raised bed.
@DaddyEvil (137805)
• United States
26 Dec 18
Hmmm... I didn't realize lettuce could become a nuisance, sofs. I'm glad it's easy enough for you to just pull up the baby plants before they become too much trouble.
I guess it must not get cold enough where you live to kill off anything you don't want to keep growing? Here, once winter weather hits I have to really work to keep the plants I want to survive from being frozen out. *shrug*
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@sofssu (23662)
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27 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil here things grow all year long and sometimes we miss baby plants and they grow so fast and furious and get into every other plants way.
