Perhaps the most satisfying cool-season crops to plant in early spring are lettuce and other salad greens such as arugula, mizuna, and kale. If Mother Nature cooperates, gardeners who plant lettuce ...

As food prices continue to rise faster than the general rate of inflation, growing your own looks more and more appealing. Often food prices take a quick jump due to things that are beyond the control ...

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 ...

Whether you have a vegetable garden, flowerbed or containers full of plants on a balcony, you should plant some lettuces. They're super easy to grow, delicious and so attractive they fit in any type ...

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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 ...

Like lettuce, spinach grows fast and isn’t very tall, so it doesn’t put down deep roots. This makes it a terrific container ...

Q: I would like to grow lettuce. When the best time to plant and are there better varieties for this area? A: Lettuce can easily be grown during the fall and spring here in the Redding area as long as ...

When I moved to central Virginia 25 years ago, my gardening neighbors believed that lettuce couldn’t be grown in winter. I set out to prove that we could indeed produce a continuous supply of salad ...

Time-lapse video of growing a lettuce plant from a seed to flowers. A lettuce seed was sown in a container indoors. A week ...

When the milder weather of April arrives in Greater Columbus, vegetable gardeners get the itch to start planting something just as soon as weather and soil conditions allow. Cool-season vegetables ...