There is nothing more satisfying for a vegetable gardener in mid-July than tossing together a salad for dinner with ingredients harvested just outside your back door. While cucumber, squashes, and the ...

Lettuce is typically a cool weather crop. It bolts and gets bitter in the heat. But, the folks at Hendrikus Organics have some late season lettuce growing tips, including how to keep it fresh once ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have only grown vegetables in another state, you should know that it’s different here. While summer is a good time to plant ...

Cold hardy lettuces and cold hardy mizuna are good choices, plus chicory could be added to the mix, as it comes into its own ...

If you want to plant lettuce outside, do it in a cold frame or start lettuce seeds indoors 4 to 6 weeks before your expected ...

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, ...

A view of flying honey bees in a swarm. Photo courtesy Getty Images. Do you have a gardening question? The UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County can help. Our volunteers are part of the University ...

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Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and mint (Mentha spp.) are downright neighborly when planted next to each other in the garden. In addition to favoring similar growing conditions, these plants are less ...

Learn to grow lettuce, spinach, kale and more with proper sun, soil prep, watering, spacing, pest control and succession planting for steady harvests.

I receive emails with gardening tips from a few of my favorite nurseries. The following information on seed starting came from Gertens’ who utilized information from the UMN Extension link: ...