FLOATING RAFT SYSTEM
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STOP! If you have just arrived at this website, you might want to go back to page one of this mini-farm plan.
NOW, carry on building this baby!
HOW TO BUILD A SMALL LETTUCE RAFT SYSTEM
Part 4- Planting Your Babies--- & Watch em grow!
10. Time to transplant your baby seedlings into the raft. Place the starter plugs into the net pots and carefully pack around them with LECA (clay balls) to help support each plant in its pot. Push the little net pots into the pre-cut holes in the styrofoam raft.
11. Plug in the airstone bubbler and watch 'em grow!
This is about 14 days after transplanting:
And this is full grown lettuces 22 days later.
We had been harvesting the outer and lower leaves of these Romaine lettuces for salads. We went out of town for the weekend, forgot to leave a fan on, and the poor darlings bolted! (Went past their prime 'cause it got too hot). You can see how the leaves are drooping out instead of nice and tight. We harvested the whole raft after we took this picture and had an enormous Caesar salad. Yum!
This is a photo of a different type of lettuce from our large raft. Just wanted you to see what happens to the roots. They grow down into the solution reservoir. Sweet, neat and clean.
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