Best Tips For Growing Lettuce

Salads are such an easy meal for summer time and a great way to get all our greens (7 cups a day!). Some people are intimidated by growing lettuce and shy away from it but there's no need, it easy!. Today I'm going to give you my best tips for growing lettuce so that you can have a continuous supply for quick and easy summer time meals that don't heat up the house. 

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Above is one of our early harvest for the gardens we used to make a salad. F.Y.I. raw kohlrabi goes great in salad.

After you have watched the video be sure to check below for all of our favorite varieties and 3 super easy and super tasty salad dressing.

Best Tips For Growing Lettuce

Our Favorite Lettuce Varieties

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• Little Gem - A heat tolerant mini romaine
• Buttercrunch- a classic butterhead type
• Lollo Rosa- the red frilly lettuce in the video
• Rouge de Hiver - a red romaine from France

We grow all four of these every year and then try some new ones out as well. These are some new varieties we are trying this year.

• May Queen - European Butterhead type
• Speckled -Green with red/ purple splashes
• Butter King - A slower to bolt butterhead type

To get the your best lettuce crop it is important that you read the description for each variety when choosing your lettuce. In general letuce is a cooler weather crop but there are some that tolorate heat and humidity better. There are also some that tolorate cold better. You want to find a variety that is best for your growing conditions.

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3 Super Easy and Super Tasty Salad Dressings

​To make the dressings put all the ingredients in a jar and shake until combined. That's it! You're done. Now enjoy your salad.

Asian
1/2 cup olive oil
11/2 tsp peanut oil
1/2 cup tamari
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
3-4 tbsp honey or brown sugar
dash of cayenne

Italian
1/2 cup vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp garlic
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp basil
1/2 tsp oregano
1/4 tsp thyme
* Instead of the oregano, basil, and thyme, you can use 1 tsp Italian dressing.

Creamy Italian
Make the same as Italian but add:
1/2 cup vegenaise (or mayonnaise)
1/4 tsp ground mustard
a dash or cayenne

This is a little plot of lettuce my 2 year old "planted." It grew so well I decided to let it be. We've got a gardener in the making people!

Do you have any favorite lettuce varieties that you would like to share with us? Or how about some tasty salad dressing? Please leave your comments below!


Happy gardening to you!

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