From Romaine to looseleaf, which types of lettuce are best for home cooks to grow? Check out our favorite tasty lettuce ...

For loose-leaf lettuces, choose ones with crisp leaves with no signs of wilting. If you're buying precut lettuce in a bag, look for ones where the leaves show no yellowing, wilting or sliminess.

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Many salad lovers opt to plant loose-leaf types densely for cut-and-come-again harvests. For example, we grow bowls of lettuce just outside the kitchen door and find an 8-inch pot holds about four ...

Loose leaf is a category of lettuce that is named after the way the leaves cluster. As opposed to greens like romaine, where the leaves stay close to the heart, loose leaf lettuce flutters out ...

Loose-leaf lettuce has open, deeply indented, loose leaves with a delicate flavor and moderately soft texture. Loose-leaf varieties include red and green leaf lettuce, and oak leaf.

In the freezer: 6 months Head Lettuce vs. Loose Leaf Lettuce Whether you purchase loose, bagged, or boxed lettuce—or a full head—is completely up to you.

Romaine, butterhead, bibb and other loose-leaf lettuce varieties are well suited for hydroponic growing. You can remove the larger, outermost leaves while leaving the rest of the plant to grow.

We’re just interested in lettuce that doesn’t have slugs and won’t give us food poisoning. Romaine, butterhead, bibb and other loose-leaf varieties are well suited for hydroponics.