The almost complete guide to growing lettuce Written by Cab Cab
(with input from some other downsizers) tells you all about
lettuce. How to grow it, and which sorts to grow. How to Grow
Lettuce Of all of the food plants you can grow, none are more
rewarding than lettuce. Sounds silly, I know, I mean, what is
there to a lettuce? Isn’t it the boring green stuff that pads
out a salad? Well, no. A well grown, fresh lettuce is the
sweetest, tastiest, crunchiest melt in the mouth part of a meal.
And best of all, its dead easy to grow too! Okay, give me the
condensed version! First, buy some seeds. Get some compost, fill
pots or seed trays with it, scatter the seed on thinly, and
cover over with more compost. Water it, and wait. Soon enough
(within a week or two) there will be plenty of seedlings there.
Give them till there are three or four leaves, put them outside
during the day to harden them off, and then plant them out in
the soil. They like almost any kind of soil, as long as they
don’t get too waterlogged or