Topic: cut and come again?

[Annadl]

Can all salad leaves be cut and come again?

3 days after cutting the outer leaves of my romaine lettuce it keeled over and died :'(

Can only certain lettuces be used like that or is there a certain way of cutting & coming again?

Sorry bout the silly question but I want to know if I did something wrong. :)

[Annadl]

Oops!

[Mrs Ava]

Hmmm, well I have cut big lettuce and left the stump as I am rushing home or whatever, and by the next visit there will be a little crop of fresh new leaves which I can pick off after a couple of weeks.  Not quite the same as cut and come again, and not guarenteed as some do just give up the ghost.  Think it is luck rather than judgement!

[tim]

An added thought?

An answer, surely, is that you would normally grow a hearting lettuce or a loose leaf one. Any of the latter allow you to pick - rather than cut - leaves whenever you wish.  Like the Australian Yellow  & its friend below. And, of course, 'salad leaves' can, as said, be 'cut again' when young throughout the season.

You certainly can pull an outer leaf off an untidy Iceberg - I did it several times this year with Pablo. But it is not the norm.

The yellow thing got to 40" across!!

Sorry - wrong lettuce see the next one - but you see what I mean?

[supersprout]

I am doing cut and come again with my spinach, and it seems to be working fine. BUT it takes forever to cut off all de little leaves, I don't just cut across the plant. Maybe I should try this with half of them in case the cut ones do a Romaine on me! ::) ;D

[Annadl]

The Romaine IS good tasting.

Is it worth cut and come again with the curly type lettuce?  Don't know it's name.

[djbrenton]

With lettuce seed so pleniful, I sow a couple of sq yds and just cut early. As I clear a foot or so I sow again thus having a continuous supply of young leaves. I do the same in the greenhouse overwinter and generally keep mrs dj in leaves for her lunches all year.

[chriszog]

With the cabbages I cut mine then cut a cross in the stump and hey presto as if by magic 4 little cabbages grow from the stump.
Regards