Romaine is commonly seen in stores sold as whole heads, however, if you are growing this type of lettuce at home, there are other ways to harvest it. If you grow romaine lettuce, there are ways to ...

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Keep the soil moist after sowing until the seeds are growing strongly. Thin the seedlings to around 30cm apart. If you're planning to cut the whole lettuce heads at harvest, sow at intervals of three ...

KAWAKAMI, Nagano Prefecture--It's 1 a.m. and the harvesting day begins early for Hiroyasu Hayashi, who grows lettuce in a four-hectare field here. Lettuce needs to be harvested in cooler ...

Producing nice heads of rather bland iceberg lettuce is difficult in Texas, but the many types and colors of leaf lettuce are ...

Additionally, each crop is often quite different from one another and so, for example, a strawberry picking machine can not be used for harvesting lettuce. A team from Cambridge university ...

Research has shown that lactucin, or an active compound in lactucarium, is found in high concentrations in green romaine lettuce. You can make this chemical if you get a bunch of romaine lettuce ...

A hearty salad brimming with South-East Asian flavours. Great as a lighter barbecue dish or a quick supper. Each serving provides 338kcal, 37g protein, 11g carbohydrate (of which 12g sugars), 16g ...