Lettuce is easy to grow, even in pots or a small space such as a window ledge, or you can bed the salad into prepared garden beds - and enjoy your freshly grown greens fairly quickly ...

Leaf lettuces, like these at the Cafe Hope in Marrero, are the stars of many home gardens each autumn. (Photo by Rush Jaygoe) Although the rain last week came down in torrents, it was greatly ...

Caring for lettuce is fairly easy. You want to keep the soil consistently moist. If you see the leaves of the lettuce wilting, then you know you need to water more. Soil with more organic matter ...

Garden lettuces can be divided into three classes based on growth habit — leaf or loose-leaf types; semi-heading types, such as butterhead and romaine (or cos), and heading or crisp-head types.

These simple techniques for harvesting lettuce will help you pick garden-fresh greens at their prime time.

Lettuce is relatively pest free, but be on the lookout for slugs, aphids, and assorted caterpillars. Depending on the variety, leaf lettuces are fully mature for harvesting the entire plant in ...

If Mother Nature cooperates, lettuce planted in early April can be enjoyed before Memorial Day.

While it is too early to plant tomatoes, now is the perfect time to plant lettuce. The key to growing a successful crop is to plant and mature the lettuce in cool weather. Lettuce is an annual plant ...

Ky Takikawa of The Garden Of has been growing lettuce with his father in Santa Ynez. He refers to salanova, which has only been available for the last 20 years, as a subgrouping of lettuces that ...

Craving a tasty salad but the summer swelter has gotten to your garden's greens? Here's how to keep them in that sweet spot that's perfect for eating!

Hot and dry conditions can set back lettuce growth, so gardeners should avoid one key thing to help give their crops the chance to thrive this summer.

Lettuce is known for being easy to grow, but the changing weather is late spring can impact its growth if you do not know how to protect their leaves properly.