Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oh, lettuce. It beefs up salads and adds a final healthy flourish to your plate. But honestly, it can get a little boring. So I’m ...

Are you an impatient gardener? Someone who just can't wait to harvest his crops? Then, lettuce (Lactuca sativa) might be your new favorite crop. Thanks to a really short growth cycle, lettuce matures ...

Few foods have the combined taste and nutritional appeal of a good salad. Whether it's cherry tomatoes, crispy bacon, and hard-boiled eggs atop a cobb salad; croutons, parmesan cheese and that ...

This heirloom variety dates back to 1875 (some sources say introduced in 1850) and is beloved for its large, lightly crumpled, lime green leaves. Black Seeded Simpson lettuce forms wide, open heads ...

A visit to the salad bar used to leave you with two choices: iceberg or romaine. But now lunch shops and grocery stores have woken up to all the types of lettuce out there, and there are almost too ...

There is nothing more satisfying for a vegetable gardener in mid-July than tossing together a salad for dinner with ingredients harvested just outside your back door. While cucumber, squashes, and 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 ...

A young, bright green lettuce seedling with delicate water droplets on its leaves, growing in a pot - TWNN/Shutterstock Are you an impatient gardener? Someone who just can't wait to harvest his crops?