Summer is waning. But if you think our salad season is over, think again. The humble lettuce is more adaptable than you might imagine, combining ease of growth, varieties for every season, and a wide ...

Another Life: The sudden rush into spring has the seakale pushing up succulent shoots in the garden (where I blanch them under pots in the dark) just as it does in the pebble banks that are the ...

Watch our animated guides to to sowing, growing and harvesting your lettuce. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full ...

Don't know about you, but I've got lettuce coming out of my ears right now. It was only a few weeks ago that I decided my perfectly formed Lollo Rosso were big enough to pick for a nice side salad ...

When I moved to central Virginia 25 years ago, my gardening neighbors believed that lettuce couldn’t be grown in winter. I set out to prove that we could indeed produce a continuous supply of salad ...

For the ancient Egyptians, lettuce was an aphrodisiac. Min, the god of fertility, with his perpetually erect penis, was depicted among upright plants reminiscent of cos. The whiteish juice that oozes ...

I have a fancy for a lettuce salad. Not a green salad, with its snippings of hot watercress and cool rounds of cucumber, nor a mixed-leaf salad - the ubiquitous, delicious mesclun of the French street ...

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