Tips to grow your own lettuce garden.
Types of lettuce:- You have several main types of lettuce to choose from for planting:
- Loose leaf (or leaf) – Loose-leaf lettuce branches off from one stem, like Green Ice (green, ruffled leaves), red leaf or the kind you find at the grocery called "spring mix."
- Butterhead – This lettuce is also known as Bibb lettuce. It has small heads with loose, tender leaves.
- Cos – This lettuce grows upright and forms elongated heads, like Romaine lettuce, and is fairly sturdy.
- Crisphead – Lettuce that has a tight, crunchy head, like iceberg (sensitive to heat and requires cool growing seasons)
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