When your lettuce shoots upwards, cut the long stems and dry the flowers. The blooms will turn into miniature dandelion clocks full of seeds you can save for planting next season. A lettuce ...

Harvesting lettuce is simple—though you'll want to do it before the plant begins to flower for the best flavor. Fresh, crisp, cool lettuce is the perfect addition to many summer salads and ...

High temperatures don’t suit lettuce, so when it gets above 25°C problems start to emerge. Bolting, when the plant starts to produce a flower spike in the centre, is the most obvious one, but the ...