Lettuce comes in many forms, according to Adrienne R. Roethling, director of curation and mission delivery at Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden, such as head, loose-leaf, and a variety of colors like ...

Romaine is a cold-hardy crop that can be harvested about 65 to 70 days after planting—the leaves will be dark green and 6 inches high. Different harvesting techniques can extend the life of romaine ...

Here in southeastern Michigan, we have just about enough time for a fall crop of leaf lettuce. About four weeks from the average first frost of autumn is a good approximation of the last chance to ...

Leaf lettuce is a fast-growing vegetable ideal for year-round container gardening. Seeds sprout quickly, usually within a couple days, making this leafy green a fun veggie to grow with kids. Leaf ...

Lettuce is a quick, nutritious fix for the winter-weary gardener hungry for a bit of green. Sow or transplant this easy, leafy cool-season vegetable February to April for a succession of healthy salad ...

The only bad thing about growing your own lettuce is that you will never again be content with store-bought. Once you harvest tender, crisp but succulent leaves from your garden and enjoy them in a ...

With the latter portion of August (somehow) upon us, many may soon be turning to their vegetable gardens, eager to sow fall salad greens and root vegetables. With soils still warm but the weather ...

Nights are finally cooling down and days are getting shorter, a clear sign that it's time to plant cool-season vegetables. One must-have cool-season vegetable is lettuce. It's an easy crop to produce ...

Store-bought salads don't even compare to homegrown lettuce. Thankfully, you can get even more from your crop than you think if you cut it the right way.

Back home on the farm, my mom grew only one kind of lettuce. It was always leaf lettuce (Black Seeded Simpson, in fact) and it was always prepared one way: Wilted lettuce salad with bacon. I adored it ...