Lettuce
Lactuca sativa
How to sow lettuce: Direct seed outdoors, thin to 20cm when seedlings are 3cm tall
Sun requirement for lettuce: Plant in Partial Sun
Lettuce has been planted 143 times by Growstuff members.
Lettuce is a cool weather crop and high temperatures will impede germination and/or cause the plant to bolt (go to seed quickly). Some hybrid cultivars have been bred to be more heat-resistant.

Predictions
Annual
living and reproducing in a single year or lessMedian lifespan
15 weeksFirst harvest expected
5 weeks after plantingLast harvest expected
11 weeks after plantingHeight
20cmSpread
15cmRow Spacing
40cmCompanions
Photos
Lettuce crops
Lettuce plantings
Lettuce harvests
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Planted from
Harvested for
Varieties

celtuce
Lactuca sativa var. asparagina

iceberg letture
Lactuca sativa

romaine lettuce
Lactuca sativa var. longifolia
Crop Map
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What people are saying about lettuces
Growing well and germinations
by Doveoscar,
Upper greenhouse Radishes growing well, [coriander](crop), [basil](crop), [spring onion](crop)s and mixed [lettuce](crop)/salad leaves all germinated and growing. Patio greenhouse Tigerella [tomato](crop)es many germinated, small plants still only two seedling leaves Pepper Etiuda germinati...
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Automating the seedlings
by shiny,
What's better than Brussel sprouts? Home-grown [Brussels Sprouts](crop) grown by robots. The automation (aka Robots) I'm using is an open source app called "Home Assistant". It runs nicely on a raspberry pi, but I'm running it on an old laptop, which is very convenient due to the backup pow...
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coriander
lettuces
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New website features (release 55)
by shiny,
If you notice any bugs or think of new features please let us know on [our github](https://github.com/issues) or comment here. We've got new crop cards on [browsing crops](https://growstuff.org/crops) or a [planting](https://www.growstuff.org/plantings/shiny-indoors-tomato-75b2e492-9f71-42f6-...
lettuces
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Te Māori taewa potatoes
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New look, new features
by shiny,
If you notice any bugs or think of new features please let us know on [our github](https://github.com/issues) or comment here. We've got new crop cards on [browsing crops](https://growstuff.org/crops) or a [planting](https://www.growstuff.org/plantings/shiny-indoors-tomato-75b2e492-9f71-42f6-...
lettuces
sunray tomatoes
Te Māori taewa potatoes
eggplants
radishes
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How to save seeds
by shiny,
[Bean](crop)s, [pea](crop)s and [corn](crop): remove husks and allow seeds to dry out – this may take a couple of weeks, then remove casings and store. [Pumpkin](crop)s and [melon](crop)s: seeds need to be washed and set aside to dry for a week or so before storage. [Lettuce](crop), [celery...
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Coming together
by shawnacscott,
This weekend I had two full days to really focus on the yard, and I made the most of it. With the intermittent help of several others over the course of the weekend, I got both easement planter boxes filled with compost and soil, cleaned up and weeded the alley, got the stump pulled from the coni...
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Getting ready for spring!
by maco,
I've got seeds either on-hand or ordered for just about everything I'm starting from seed this year. I've been working out what I want to plant, and this is the plan I've come up with for the 72 square feet of my backyard raised beds: s, 3 [green bean](crop)s, 2 tongue-of-fire beans, an ornamental [sweet potato](crop), and an [artichoke](crop). I...
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State of the Spring Garden
by black_hound,
Finally some seasonably warm weather. The peas are shooting up rather quickly. The [lettuce](crop) has sprouted. Beets are up. [Turnip](crop) are getting their second set of leaves so I will be thinning them out this week. [Radish](crop) going strong. And I believe I saw the [Swiss Chard](cro...
lettuces
turnips
radishes
Swiss chard
beets
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Transplant day!
by inkstone,
I originally wanted to do this yesterday but it rained in the morning so that kinda put a damper on things. So I did it all today instead! A bunch of the seeds I wintersowed in the milk jugs and soda bottles were getting crowded so it was time to move them to their bigger (permanent) container...
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Lettuce harvests
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iain harvested 1.
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