Transplanting Lettuce into the Vegetable Garden

Transplanting lettuce is always one of my favorite garden activities. It's not that I particularly love to eat lettuce, but rather, it's always among the very first crops that I begin to transplant into the yard. In early spring, I can't begin to explain how eager I am to get my hands into the dirt!…

Winter Sowing Lettuce Seeds in Zone 6/7

Winter sowing lettuce was one of my first breakthroughs in the vegetable garden. In the past, I had sown lettuce seeds directly sometime in the spring. By the time I got around to sowing the seeds, it was usually too hot. If it wasn't too hot, the weeds would quickly take over and my lettuce…