Growing Fabulous Lettuce and Greens

Reader Contribution by Melodie Metje

We love eating a salad every day. It is fresh, crunchy, and delicious. You can dress it up in so many different ways. The variety available for the greens themselves is phenomenal. When I was growing up, it seemed the only salad green in the store was iceberg lettuce. Now, you can get numerous varieties of lettuces, kale, fiddle leaf ferns, purslane, wheat grass, pea shoots, spinach, amaranth, chives, arugula, endive, radicchio, blood-veined sorrel (right); the list goes on.

As the variety has increased in the stores, it has ballooned in seed catalogues. There are hundreds of different lettuces, greens, and salad herbs available out there.

Growing Garden Greens

Greens all have something in common. They are fed by nitrogen (stimulates green growth) and stay sweetest in cool temperatures with consistent moisture. Like most vegetables, greens do best in a fertile soil, rich in organic matter.

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