THE KITCHEN GROWING SERIES / NO. 01
Make room for your
next lettuce harvest.
A printable workbook to work out what fits, stagger your sowings and learn from what actually grows.
Free Full 12-page PDF · no email required
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Actual workbook pages. No mock-up.MAKE THE NEXT STEP CONCRETE
Less guessing.
A plan you can write on.
- Check capacity before sowing. Separate your nursery from the main garden and see whether a weekly target fits.
- Keep the next batch visible. Record 12 sowings, transplant dates and estimated harvest checks.
- Replace assumptions with results. Track actual heads harvested and adjust the next rotation.
TRY BEFORE YOU DECIDE
Three real pages. Free to inspect.
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WHAT’S IN THE FINISHED PACK
Twelve pages.
Built to use.
US Letter PDF, printable in colour or grayscale. Use your printer’s “fit to page” setting for A4. The full workbook has 92 digital text fields for your inputs, dates and records. It does not calculate inside the PDF.
- Cover and rotation illustration
- Fit check and equipment preparation
- Your setup and assumptions worksheet
- Capacity arithmetic and worked example
- 12-batch sowing and harvest planning table
- Weekly care observation checklist
- Whole-head versus leaf-harvest guidance
- Six-batch grow log, reusable by printing again
- Next-cycle review and adjustment worksheet
- Your salad baseline and weighed-harvest log
- Late-batch and replacement planning worksheet
- Sources, companion tools and limitations
For a small lettuce rotation.
With clear limits.
This is for home growers planning whole-head lettuce in usable growing positions, with an optional separate nursery. It is not a model-specific setup manual, a construction plan, a nutrient recipe or a calculator for tomatoes, microgreens or repeated leaf picking.
No seeds, equipment, personal consultation or guaranteed harvest is included. Growing times and success rates are editable assumptions. The pack has not been independently horticulturist-reviewed or validated in a growing trial.
The public references are UF/IFAS Extension and University of Minnesota Extension. Worksheets and planning arithmetic are Scout’s own. No institutional endorsement is implied.
INFORMED BY GROWER QUESTIONS
Plan for meals.
Keep track of reality.
We reviewed eight public Reddit discussions to find questions the workbook should answer. These accounts disagree and are not representative yield data. They informed new worksheets, not guaranteed growing instructions.
Will this give me a daily salad?
Some owners report plenty of greens; others describe smaller harvests than expected. The new salad-baseline sheet helps you measure your own meal size and actual harvested weight. No fixed grams-per-salad assumption.
Owner reports: daily-salad expectations · positive and surplus experiences.
Should I pick leaves or harvest whole plants?
Both approaches appear in the discussions. The workbook records which you use, and keeps leaf picking separate from the whole-head calculator: a plant left growing still occupies its space.
Read the harvest-method question, the conflicting grower experiences, and our extension-sourced harvesting guide.
What if the next batch is late or older plants decline?
The new gap worksheet records seedling readiness, available positions and the next check-in. Revisit your observed timing rather than assuming every plant will match a calendar. No universal replacement interval or forum treatment recipe is prescribed.
Discussions: bolting and replacement questions · a slow-growing batch.
What about the work between harvests?
The weekly sheet now records maintenance time and prompts an absence check against your device instructions. The plan is useful only if its routine suits you.
Owner account: a difficult restart after time away. Individual experience, not a product reliability finding.
Research checked 18 October 2026. We did not post, collect usernames or use growers’ comments as testimonials. The workbook remains free, with no email gate.
YOUR FIRST LETTUCE ROTATION
A plan beside
your growing space.
Free Full 12-page PDF · no email required
Use the free planner for calculations, then keep the workbook beside your garden for dates, observations and grow records.
Ready for your first rotation?
Download the full twelve-page workbook. It includes 92 fillable fields and reusable printable planning sheets.
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