Lettuce Ideas, Tips & Guides

We’ve had the Hydroponicum for over a year now. It has kept us supplied with salads and stir-fry veg, and I’ve grown one or two more experimental crops as well. Not everything I have tried has been successful. My spinach bolted (I’m not sure why, and I haven’t tried again yet). Alliums don’t seem to like germinating in the hydroponic seedling tray, and coriander downright refused. Coriander seedlings will grow hydroponically, though, so I may try allium transplants at some point.

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If you’re currently tending lettuce plants, then you have something in common with the crew on board the International Space Station (ISS). They’re testing NASA’s new Vegetable Production System – affectionately known as ‘Veggie’. At 11.5 inches by 14.5 inches, Veggie is the largest plant growth chamber to have been blasted into space, and was developed by Orbital Technologies Corp.

Growing lettuce on the Moon is a step closer, as a French start-up has successfully grown lettuce in simulated lunar soil.

I woke up on Mars this morning. It’s a lot wetter than I thought it would be

Header image: Lettuce cultivated in a sealed bag (Left: before harvesting; Right: before collecting on the ground). Image credit: Takanaka Corporation

Header image: This lettuce produces a bone-stimulating hormone that could help stave off bone loss in space and on Earth. Image credit: Kevin Yates

Lettuce is one of those plants that you can usually count on to give you a hefty harvest with minimal fuss.You probably won’t have to beg, c

What do people, pills, and lettuce have in common?When they are bitter, they’re the worst.Mayb

Are you searching for a palate-pleasing lettuce? Tired of the old standby ‘Iceberg’ and varieties of romaine? Then ‘Buttercrunch’ might be just what you’re looking for.Any time the word “butter” appears in the name of a vegetab

Almost all garden plants are susceptible to some type of disease, and lettuce is no exception.Some can be mildly inconvenient and easy to preve

Are you frustrated with trying to figure out why your lettuce seedlings are dying?It’s so aggravating! They looked perfectly fine

It’s not hard to grow lettuce, and everyone should really give it a try. You can grow it in containers, in a window box, or tucked unassumingly among flowers.It’s fast growing, and with a little plann

It’s hard to beat the taste of a crisp green salad made with ingredients fresh from the garden.Easy to grow, lettuce and mixed greens ask little of the gardener, bu

For the antsy gardener waiting in anticipation for the last spring frost, growing leaf lettuce eases the tension. Its fresh, vibrant leaves are quick to rise and are a welcome sight in the early weeks of spring.Leaf lettuce refers to varieties that don’t produce any type of head. They a

Spring is all about planting and summer is when we care for those maturing edible plants.Fall is the time to reap all t

Leaf lettuce is one of the fastest-maturing vegetables you can plant in your garden or in a container. The seeds are inexpensive, too, and it’s quite simple to sow and maintain them.But all that convenience won’t mea

Iceberg lettuces have a reputation for being wonderfully crisp but disappointingly bland.They’re the most popular type of lettuce produced and sold commer

Lettuce comes in a range of varieties – with flavors from buttery and mild to nutty and even slightly bitter; textures from delicate to crunchy; and colors from pale to dark green and burgundy.With all these choices, even the most ardent v

Batavian lettuce, also known as summer crisp, is the little veggie that could.It can tolerate heat better than many other lettuce types but it’s still har

Growing lettuce in containers is easy, but choosing an appropriate container may not be.Certain features are important to support the healt

Growing your own fresh lettuce is possible even without a big plot of land for a garden.In fact, lettuce is arguably th

Are you tired of plucking pests, waging war on weeds, and losing lettuce to common garden issues?If so, listen closely and I’ll let you i

Nothing beats the fresh taste of homegrown lettuce and sometimes it can feel like every animal and insect in the neighborhood agrees.Lettuce is one of the most commonly decimated

If you want to stretch your food budget, but you still crave organic, hyper-local produce – even during a global pandemic that’s keeping you at home – it’s time to gain some familiarity with growing lettuce from scraps.Okay, you’re not going to yield a huge

Growing lettuce is a lot like getting along with people. You want to be careful not to expect too much, without expecting too little, either.Some gardeners want this cool-season vegetable to keep