🥗 How to Grow Lettuce
Lettuce is the quintessential cool-season crop — incredibly fast from seed to salad, thrives in spring and fall, and comes in hundreds of varieties. Cut-and-come-again types provide weeks of harvest from a single sowing.
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Family: Asteraceae · Type: Vegetable
Lettuce is the quintessential cool-season crop — incredibly fast from seed to salad, thrives in spring and fall, and comes in hundreds of varieties. Cut-and-come-again types provide weeks of harvest from a single sowing.
Lettuce grows in all zones as a cool-season crop. Spring and fall planting in Zones 5–9; year-round in Zones 9–11; extended season in Zones 7+ with cold frames.
How to Grow Lettuce: Step-by-Step
- Sow thickly and thin to final spacing; use thinnings in salads
- Provide afternoon shade in hot weather to delay bolting
- Succession-sow every 2 weeks for continuous harvest
- Harvest outer leaves on loose-leaf types; harvest whole heads when mature
- Bolt prevention: water consistently and shade on hot days
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Zone-by-Zone Growing Guide
Lettuce grows in all zones as a cool-season crop. Spring and fall planting in Zones 5–9; year-round in Zones 9–11; extended season in Zones 7+ with cold frames.
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