Romaine is a cold-hardy crop that can be harvested about 65 to 70 days after planting—the leaves will be dark green and 6 inches high. Different harvesting techniques can extend the life of romaine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heads of fresh lettuce grow in rows in a backyard garden. - Shine Like Stars/Shutterstock Did you know lettuce can give you ...

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 ...

For a lot of us growing up, the only home-grown lettuce we might have had was probably the large-leafed lettuce — Black Seeded Simpson, in fact — and it was always prepared one way: as wilted lettuce ...