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# Growing/ planting lettuce
# Lettuce recipes
Lettuce is a temperate annual or biennial belonging to the family ‘Asteraceae’. Lettuce tends to be grown as a leaf vegetable and eaten cold and raw in salads. Lettuce prefers a light, moist soil and is fairly easy to grow (see below for growing tips).
Lettuce has one of the greatest range of varieties within the vegetable world. Some of the most common lettuce seed varieties include:
Ashbrook lettuce seeds - A well textured, light green lettuce.
Buttercrunch lettuce seeds – Soft outer leaves and a tasty centre.
Cancan lettuce seeds – An attractive lettuce with frilly leaves. Mildew resistant.
Cos lettuce seeds - Great colour, shape and texture. Ready to eat in just 3 weeks.
Dazzle lettuce seeds – A small flavoursome lettuce and a quick grower to boot.
Ice King lettuce seeds - A quick growing lettuce with a solid heart, popular in salads.
Little gem lettuce seeds – Small, sweet and solid. Ideal for small gardens.
Lobjoits lettuce seeds – A gardeners favourite producing large, dark green hearts.
Lollo Rossa lettuce seeds – Stunning looking with a bitter sweet flavour.
Pandero lettuce seeds – A mini red Cos with crisp, tasty leaves.
Tom Thumb lettuce seeds - Early maturing lettuce with a tight, solid, heads.
Webbs Wonderful lettuce seeds – This produces a crisp with a solid crunchy heart.
Winter density lettuce seeds - Popular for Autumn sowing and recommended by the NIAB
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Growing lettuce
1/ There are three different types of lettuce to consider – butterhead, loose-leaf and cos. Loose-leaf varieties grow much faster and can be ready for harvest within six to eight weeks.
2/ The soil must be fertile and moist. Try to keep the plant site slightly shaded and not full on sun light.
3/ You are able to start lettuce seeds both indoors or outdoors for a summer crop.
4/ If sowing outdoors sow the lettuce seeds thinly in around 2 cm drills, approx 30cm apart. Cover the seeds with soil and water.
5/ Slugs are the biggest pest for lettuce – either use slug pellets or prevention rings.
6/ Harvest the lettuce when a solid heart has formed.
When planting lettuce always remember to refer to the instructions on the seed packets!
A video guide on how to grow lettuce.
Lettuce recipes
The following websites have great tips and advice on cooking with lettuce.
Let us know if you would like us to add your lettuce recipe to the list below.
Some of our favourite lettuce recipes include mint and lettuce salad, lettuce and avocado soup and spicy mince and lettuce wraps.
BBC - Good food
Cookitsimply
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