As food prices continue to rise faster than the general rate of inflation, growing your own looks more and more appealing. Often food prices take a quick jump due to things that are beyond the control ...

Growing your own lettuce is easy! Try these tips for how to grow lettuce indoors or outdoors. Equally at home in the vegetable garden, containers, or flower border, lettuce presents garden-fresh ...

Here in southeastern Michigan, we have just about enough time for a fall crop of leaf lettuce. About four weeks from the average first frost of autumn is a good approximation of the last chance to ...

When I moved to central Virginia 25 years ago, my gardening neighbors believed that lettuce couldn’t be grown in winter. I set out to prove that we could indeed produce a continuous supply of salad ...

Calling all rabbit-food lovers — it is time to get in the garden! Lettuce is a great start for any garden, and a wonderful addition to the kitchen. Nothing can beat fresh lettuce harvested from the ...

Calling all rabbit-food lovers — it is time to get in the garden! Lettuce is a great start for any garden, and a wonderful addition to the kitchen. Nothing can beat fresh lettuce harvested from the ...

When the milder weather of April arrives in Greater Columbus, vegetable gardeners get the itch to start planting something just as soon as weather and soil conditions allow. Cool-season vegetables ...

Nights are finally cooling down and days are getting shorter, a clear sign that it's time to plant cool-season vegetables. One must-have cool-season vegetable is lettuce. It's an easy crop to produce ...

Back home on the farm, my mom grew only one kind of lettuce. It was always leaf lettuce (Black Seeded Simpson, in fact) and it was always prepared one way: Wilted lettuce salad with bacon. I adored it ...

Last week we cleared out the dead summer time plants after our first freeze of the season. I have installed two cold frames, and we are ready to add some cold season vegetables that will benefit ...

1. Clematis may be planted now. Clematis has large-petaled starry flowers in white, pink, purple, or red. Flowering from mid to late summer, Clematis has the unique feature of utilizing any plant in ...

We can grow some of our food inside our house here in winter. Lettuce and other greens are a good place to start. Some vegetables need the blazing hot sun of Michigan’s summer to produce nice food. A ...