1. Vegetables
2. Small fruit
3. Tree fruit
Lettuce
- One of the easiest vegetables to grow
- Full sun to part shade, moist, well drained soil
- amend soil with compost or manure annually
Planting
- can plant from early spring to the beginning of July
- avoid watering late in the day
- use slug pellets to control slugs
Harvesting
- ready to harvest as soon as heart is formed
- simply cut off the head
- harvest in the morning when the leaves are crisp
- pick only what you can use
- in containers cut 2.5 cm from soil level to produce second crop
- stagger crops to have continuous supply of lettuce
- 50-90 days of harvest
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