Nursing your own lettuce from seed to harvest can be a bit of a challenge outdoors. The temperatures have to be just right. When it's too hot, the greens bolt and become unpalatably bitter. And ...

Just like growing your own food, saving your own seed is another great way to ensure you are in control of your own food ...

February is the month when indoor seed-starting takes center stage in the Northern gardening world. It’s when eager gardeners get busy starting their cool-season plants, such as cabbage, broccoli, ...

No matter what time of year, so long as your house doesn't get too, too hot, you can grow this vegetable on a windowsill for ...

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 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For a lot of us growing up, the only home-grown lettuce we might have had was probably the large-leafed ...

Q. What causes lettuce to flower, and why does it taste bitter after flowering? When an annual (or biennial) reaches the end of its life, it wants to reproduce. This involves producing flowers and, ...