Leaf lettuce makes an excellent ground cover. It's beautiful, grows in sun or part shade and it's edible. Not only that, it's a gorgeous plant for the front of a flower border, and it can serve as ...

Red and green leaf lettuce have the same vitamins and nutrients as romaine and are also good sources of anthocyanins, an antioxidant found in fruits and vegetables that are dark red or purple.

Can’t get your children to eat lettuce? See if you can get them into lettuce research. Will Afton, a 27-year-old Baton Rougean working on his master’s degree in horticulture at LSU, wasn’t a ...

For green leaf lettuce, ISU Extension recommends "Envy," "Grand Rapids," "Oakleaf," "Black-seeded Simpson" and "Tango." "Valley Heart" is a new introduction described as fast-maturing and uniform ...

To get more bang for your buck, select varieties with dark green and red leaves because the vitamin content is higher. No, we can't grow iceberg lettuce here, but we can grow leaf, romaine (cos ...

Leaf lettuces are fast maturing and can be ready to begin harvesting just 40 days after planting. Harvesting is best done by cropping the plants regularly.

Romaine types suitable for our gardens include 'Paris Island Cos,' a medium-green lettuce matures in about 75 days and 'Rosalita,' a deep-red romaine with crispy leaves that's ready in 55 days ...

Leaf lettuce produces a loose arrangement of leaves on the stalk. Leaves may be green, such as the cultivars Black-Seeded Simpson, Green Ice, and Grand Rapids, or red, as in Ruby, Lolla Rossa, and Red ...

The curled leaves of the head lettuce are awkward for a sandwich and often more than half the leaf is white. The all-green leaves of the leaf lettuces grow straight up, making them fit onto a ...

Cool days and chilly nights are just the kind of weather lettuce enjoys. Lettuce is easy to grow, and any gardener should consider it. Because Louisiana summers are way too hot for lettuce, it’s ...

As a result the garden bed won’t get much help from ground radiation anymore. I expect to wake up one day soon and find all of my remaining lettuce frozen into an unusable mush.

Five cutters in front, four behind, working nine rows at a time. Between the two groups of cutters is the unyielding, stainless steel, $300,000-dollar, slowly marching Ramsay Highlander Romaine ...