Growing Lettuce

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Growing lettuce is a healthy thing to do! I especially like growing lettuce organically. Lettuce is a "cold" weather crop, in other words, it likes cooler weather. Lettuce usually does not do well during the hot days of summer. If you really want to to be growing lettuce in the summer, you will need to shade it. Lettuce usually does well in the spring and in the fall. Two of the types are lettuce are come again lettuce (leaf lettuce) and head lettuce. Cut and come again lettuce (leaf lettuce) can be harvested several times in a season. When the lettuce is about 3-6 inches, then cut off the leaves. Leave about 1/2 inch for it to continue to grow. Head lettuce is usually harvested by pulling it from the ground. This page has lots of resources for growing lettuce in your backyard.

Growing Lettuce

Growing Organic Lettuce - How to Grow Organic Lettuce
Growing organic lettuce is rewarding, and can be done in a traditional garden or in containers. This article tells you everything you need to do to grow organic lettuce.
Organic Lettuce Growing Tips: How to Grow Lettuce in an Organic Garden | Suite101.com
Growing lettuce without pesticides and chemicals is fairly easy. Here's how to grow lettuce using organic methods.
Growing Organic Lettuce: Fresh, Delicious, Healthy and Tasty | Suite101.com
One of the easiest vegetables to grow at home is the humble lettuce. In the modern age where gardens are being sacrificed for decking anyone has enough space for lettuce.
Organic Gardening: How to grow organic Lettuce | Vegetable Crops for the Garden
By careful selection of varieties and use of heated facilities, it is possible to produce fresh lettuce for at least 11 months of the year, though why one would want to, with the variety of other salad greens available, is beyond me.
All About Growing Lettuce
Learn the ins and outs of growing lettuce, such as which types to try, when to plant, how to plant, harvesting and storage techniques, how to save seeds, best uses in the kitchen, pest disease and prevention tips and general growing suggestions.
Growing Lettuce
Growing lettuce varies from easy to not quite so easy depending on which variety you chose and when you sow them.
Growing Lettuce - Keep Lettuce Growing in the Heat of Summer
Summer is thought of as a cool season crop, bolting with the first hint of heat. There are a few tricks to prolong the lettuce harvest throughout the summer season.
How to grow Lettuce
How to grow lettuce, Growing Lettuce, Lettuce Seeds
The Garden of Eaden: HOW TO GROW LETTUCE FROM SEED
How to grow lettuce.
Growing Lettuce: For All Four Seasons
With growing lettuce, you need moist, well-drained, slightly acidic fertile soil. Plant in succession the correct variety for each season for continuous harvest, and plant just what you need.
Growing Lettuce
Lettuces can be grown in a wide number of areas in the garden, in containers, the vegetable patch or raised beds. Today there are lettuces of many sizes, colours, flavours, textures exhibiting various growth requirements
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If you're itching to start your spring planting, but the garden soil is still too wet to work, a spring container garden may be the perfect solution.
These Babies are Fun to Grow - Vegetable Gardener
The growing trend toward container vegetables has produced some new options for small-space gardening, like these Garden Babies.
Growing Lettuce and How to Grow Lettuce in Hot Weather
Growing lettuce is relatively easy. While it's cool enough! To grow lettuce in hot weather you need to know a few tricks...
How to Grow Lettuce Indoors | DoItYourself.com
Growing lettuce indoors is a simple process.
Lettuce Growing and Harvesting Information | Vegetable Growing Information
Guide to Growing and Harvesting Lettuce in your Vegetable Garden, Including Plant Spacing, Timing, and Ideal Growing Conditions to Optimize your Veggie Garden Naturally and Organically

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Make sure you shade lettuce if you want to grow it during the summer to keep it from getting overly hot. Lettuce likes cooler weather. It is a good plant to grow in the early spring and the late fall.

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Are you growing lettuce in your garden?

  • AskLou1 Feb 25, 2012 @ 7:42 am | delete
    We grow a couple of different kinds. I love the spring mix the most!
  • jadehorseshoe Jan 4, 2012 @ 12:01 am | delete
    Easy to grow; kind of expensive to buy at the grocery store. EZ choice for me. Mine tastes MUCH better, too.
  • COUNTRYLUTHIER Jun 26, 2011 @ 4:24 pm | delete
    Absolutel, September 2010 until June 2011 lettuce has been a fresh green for the salads and sandwichs we've eaten. Great info. Keep sharing!
  • darciefrench May 25, 2011 @ 2:55 pm | delete
    This year, I would have to grow lettuce on my patio.

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