Q. What causes lettuce to flower, and why does it taste bitter after flowering? When an annual (or biennial) reaches the end of its life, it wants to reproduce. This involves producing flowers and, ...

Nursing your own lettuce from seed to harvest can be a bit of a challenge outdoors. The temperatures have to be just right.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For a lot of us growing up, the only home-grown lettuce we might have had was probably the large-leafed ...