Indoor lettuce growing is quickly becoming a favorite for home gardeners who want crisp, pesticide-free greens without ...

For more than two decades, Nadia has been a copywriter, editor, and translator for digital and print in a variety of industries. Her passions and areas of expertise are food and gardening. She has ...

As food prices continue to rise faster than the general rate of inflation, growing your own looks more and more appealing. Often food prices take a quick jump due to things that are beyond the control ...

Here in southeastern Michigan, we have just about enough time for a fall crop of leaf lettuce. About four weeks from the average first frost of autumn is a good approximation of the last chance to ...

Leaf lettuce is easy to grow in early spring gardens. Producing nice heads of rather bland iceberg lettuce is difficult in Texas, but the many types and colors of leaf lettuce are fairly easy to grow, ...

When the milder weather of April arrives in Greater Columbus, vegetable gardeners get the itch to start planting something just as soon as weather and soil conditions allow. Cool-season vegetables ...

This heirloom variety dates back to 1875 and is beloved for its large, lightly crumpled, lime green leaves. Black Seeded Simpson lettuce forms wide, open heads making it easy to pick individual leaves ...

We can grow some of our food inside our house here in winter. Lettuce and other greens are a good place to start. Some vegetables need the blazing hot sun of Michigan’s summer to produce nice food. A ...

Just in time to screw up those New Year’s diet resolutions, more lettuce recalls were announced. Most of these are due to contamination, either by salmonella or listeria, and can be blamed on either ...