and 1972.1 ARS agricultural engineers have developed a mechanical lettuce harvester. Contactless delivery and your first delivery. I am seriously considering buying one of these, it's just the steep price tag that's keeping it out of reach. PACKING AND SHIPPING MECHANICALLY HARVESTED LETTUCE By R. Get DiLusso Chicken Salad Harvester on Wheatberry Bread (5 oz) delivered to you within two hours via Instacart. Jack Algiere at Stone Barns suggested that when using the quick cut harvester, spend a few extra minutes washing the greens and do your quality control there. Some quality control as I cut greens, by tossing aside damaged leaves, the quick cut harvester will pick up everything you put in its path. I can see two minor downsides to the greens harvester: it requires regular sharpening of the serrated blade, and where before I could do The macrame brush that lifts the greens into the basket was very gentle and did not cause any damage. What was left behind was a perfectly flat bed of mowed stems, conducive to even and marketable regrowth.
They cut an entire bulb crate full of miner's lettuce in less than a minute. I watched the quick cut greens harvester up close while it was being photographed for the Johnny's catalog at this past Young Farmers Conference at Stone Barns Center. The leaves will also need to be trimmed off before storing. The harvester grabs the wheat and tomatoes like it should, but the soybeans and lettuce are coming back as seeds instead of the actual produce. Or you can remove the entire plant by digging it up and trimming the base and roots off. Cut the stalk at the base of the plant, right above the soil line. As long as the root is intact in the ground and there are at least 1-2 inches of stem and leaves at the base, lettuce will shoot new growth in as little as a week. Celtuce lettuce is ready for harvest when the diameter of the stalk is 1 inch and it is 8-14 inches. Lettuce regrows once its leaves have been cut or picked off the main stem.
Courtesy of Victoria W., Deluge Farms, Plains, MT This article will explain how to sustainably harvest lettuce for long periods of time with only a few strategic sowings.