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 are fast maturing and can be ready to begin harvesting just 40 days after planting. Harvesting is best done by cropping the plants regularly.

We sow 10 rows, 41⁄2 inches apart, in a 4-foot bed. That results in a lot of lettuce! Baby lettuce mix is a cut-and-come-again crop, meaning the plants will regrow and can be harvested more than ...

Read on to learn how to harvest leaf lettuce and head lettuce and get the most out of your plants. Related: 12 Tips for Growing Lettuce in Containers from Seed to Salad 1.

Taste the leaves before making that salad, though. Once the flower stalk has emerged, it’s too late. If you don’t pull out the plant, the seeds will mature and you can collect them for next ...

In the summer, fresh garden lettuce is baby lettuce. Hawley loves planting lettuce because “it’s easy and you use it all the time.” “You don’t plant things (in the vegetable garden ...

To grow lettuce with the cut and come again method, it's best to plant loose-leaf lettuce varieties (although head lettuce varieties can also work if those are the seeds you have on hand), and to ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. My wife, Nancy, and I have been eating our own lettuce every day since ...

Choose heat-tolerant varieties. One method for keeping leafy greens in a productive vegetative state during the dog days of summer is to plant heat-tolerant varieties.. Butterhead types of lettuce ...

We have been eating leaf lettuce daily since early May, because we planted seeds of a leaf lettuce mix in March under a cold frame – basically a small greenhouse. That planting has grown tired ...

Growing your own lettuce is cheap and simple, but picking the leaves at the right time will ensure the best taste ...