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Lettuce

Here's when to plant salads for a year-round harvest!
Growing vegetables
Here's when to plant salads for a year-round harvest!

Do you want to enjoy delicious salads from your vegetable garden all year round? Good news, salad can be grown and harvested from spring to winter. Here's when to plant them and other tips for harvesting beautiful lettuce, chicory and...

15 June 2024
How do I prevent my lettuce from rotting while growing?
Growing vegetables
How do I prevent my lettuce from rotting while growing?

If you want your lettuces to enjoy good growth in your vegetable garden, it is necessary to give them sufficient attention. Furthermore, you should also be wary of the damage that slugs and snails are likely to cause. How to...

10 July 2024
Salad going to seed: how to avoid it?
Growing vegetables
Salad going to seed: how to avoid it?

Sprouting is as much of a gardener's hassle as runaway seedlings. Everything looks promising and then, all of a sudden, the seeds arrive and blow away your hopes of a harvest. Most lettuces go to seed at the end of...

21 June 2025
How do you cut lettuce so that it grows back?
Pruning and maintaining
How do you cut lettuce so that it grows back?

To have beautiful vegetable plants like lettuces, it's essential to respect certain rules and, if possible, the environment that goes with them thanks to permaculture! Nothing could be simpler, so that they can give you their secret of beauty, all...

30 August 2025
5 varieties of lettuce to grow as winter approaches
Tips for the vegetable garden
5 varieties of lettuce to grow as winter approaches

Rich in fibre minerals and vitamins, salad has a special place on our plates and in our vegetable gardens, whatever the season. As we approach the winter, let's find out together which 5 varieties of salad to grow and our...

4 October 2025
Lettuce
Lettuce
Characteristics
  • Lifecycle : Annual
  • Exposure : Partial Shade
  • Frost Hardiness : Slightly Frost Sensitive
  • Cultivation Difficulty : Easy
  • Adult Height : 25 cm
Sowing & Planting
  • Greenhouse Growing : Not Required
  • Sowing Depth : 0.5 cm
  • Plant Spacing : 25 cm
  • Row Spacing : 25 cm
Maintenance
  • Maintenance : Low
  • Water Requirements : Moderate
Seeds
  • Soil Type : Humus-rich
  • Soil pH Preference : Neutral
  • Pest Sensitivity : Moderate
  • Disease Sensitivity : Moderate
  • Weed Sensitivity : Moderate
  • Pollination : Self-pollinating
  • Propagation : Sowing