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 ...

An integral ingredient in any salad, lettuce comes in a variety of shapes and sizes. Lettuce is easy to grow in most gardens and it can also be significantly cheaper than buying lettuce in the ...

When I moved to central Virginia 25 years ago, it was accepted as fact that we couldn’t grow lettuce in the summer. And we didn’t yet have a hoophouse yet, so we didn’t have lettuce in winter either.

For salad lovers, there is nothing nicer than a crisp, fresh salad even in winter and lettuce is the ideal salad base, to which you can add herb leaves, edible flowers and other salad veggies of your ...