Edible leafy foliage in a range of colors and forms make this a salad staple. Lettuce is grown quickly with regular watering and fertile soil. Snails and slugs need to be fended off with regular inspections and night-time raids. In temperate zones lettuce will grow in any season but does best in Autumn and Spring.
- Type
- Exotic
- Maintenance
- High
- Lifecycle
- Annual
- Container
- Zero
- Size
- Grass and Groundcover
- Root size
- Less than 2.5m (safe)
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Moist tropical, Semi-arid with summer rain, Moist temperate with hot summers, Arid interior, Semi-arid with winter rain, Moist temperate with warm summers, Winter rains with dry summers
- Regions
- Edible plants
- Shade levels
- Full sun