Growing Early Spring Lettuce | MOTHER EARTH NEWS
. Hoophouse lettuce Green Forest and Red Salad Bowl. Photo by Wren Vile I have written posts for Mother Earth about winter lettuce and Growing Lettuce Year Round, and I have a year (May to April) of postings about suitable lettuce varieties for each month on my website Sustainable Market Farming. The Lettuce Year Round article is mostly about scheduling your sowings to provide an unbroken supply of lettuce, no shortages or gluts, using succession planting techniques. Here I’m going to focus on varieties and strategies that work best early in the year. I like to sow four lettuce variet...