The only bad thing about growing your own lettuce is that you will never again be content with store-bought. Once you harvest tender, crisp but succulent leaves from your garden and enjoy them in a ...

1. Clematis may be planted now. Clematis has large-petaled starry flowers in white, pink, purple, or red. Flowering from mid to late summer, Clematis has the unique feature of utilizing any plant in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The centerpiece of the salad bowl, lettuce is an ideal fall crop here. Lettuce has been cultivated for more than 2,000 years, and today there are numerous varieties among the bibb, head (perhaps more ...

When I moved to central Virginia 25 years ago, my gardening neighbors believed that lettuce couldn’t be grown in winter. I set out to prove that we could indeed produce a continuous supply of salad ...