Lots of cool-season vegetables can be planted in our gardens now, including leafy vegetables like lettuce. Lettuce is easy to grow, and freshly harvested lettuce is so delicious. Whether you have a vegetable garden or garden in containers on a deck, porch or balcony, you should include lettuce.

Our planting season extends from September through March, with harvest ending in May.

Garden lettuces can be divided into three types based on habit of growth:

Heading or crisphead types

Leaf or loose-leaf types

Semi-heading types (such as butterhead and romaine)

Try just about any variety that strikes your fancy. Plant breeders have created an amazing array in many shapes, sizes and colors, and it’s fun to try out several different types each year.

Crisphead lettuces, such as the iceberg ty

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