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How To Grow Lettuce You Can Enjoy Year Round
Getting lettuce from my garden is like nothing else: fresh, crisp, and delicious! Do you know how to grow lettuce? It’s ...
There are many different types of lettuce that you can grow in a vegetable garden and romaine lettuce is ideal if you want a tall and crisp head of homegrown lettuce to harvest. A common leaf seen ...
It is very difficult for a home gardener to grow Belgian endive successfully. Radicchio forms dense, bitter heads. Plant in summer for fall harvest. Treat it the same as endive or lettuce. Radicchio ...
Baby leaf lettuce can be harvested much sooner than head lettuce types, and multiple harvests may be possible depending on growing conditions. What are the postharvest cooling and washing requirements ...
You might pull lettuce from the fridge only to find it limp, slimy, brown, or just plain past its prime. Head lettuces can last a while, but leaf lettuces often spoil quickly, giving you the ...
romaine lettuce requires a longer growing season and many varieties are not heat resistant. They grow upright with elongated heads that grow 10 inches or more and mature in about 65 days.
Most varieties of lettuce are foolproof and can be ... or allow the plants to grow to about 15cm and cut the whole head off leaving a 3cm (1in) stump - a new plant should soon re-sprout.
The class teaches plant science, plant anatomy and growing conditions ... students plant about 275 head of lettuce, which yields about 50 to 60 pounds of crop. Some of the lettuce gets donated ...