Grow lettuce in your garden, and enjoy delicious meals with your very own, home grown produce. Lettuce iceberg seeds produce the most widely grown lettuce, which has tightly packed, sweet, crisp leaves with a crunchy heart. This hardy vegetable is easy to grow and prefers cooler growing conditions. It is a great source of dietary fibre.
|Soil Requirements — Well drained soil|
Sow indoors from mid Winter or directly in the garden after danger of frost has passed, and again after Summer heat has eased. Prefers cooler growing conditions as heat can cause the plant to bolt. Sow seed 5mm deep into well prepared soil. Water regularly and apply liquid fertiliser every two weeks to promote quick growth. Seedlings emerge 7-10 days.
Water lettuce regularly.