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Red Sails lettuce

I started a lettuce mix in a pot in March 2011, and then transplanted many of the seedlings when they were 3-4″ tall to the hillside.  One type of lettuce really took off and grew like gangbusters throughout the spring, while the other ones (mostly the green ones) did very …

Red Romaine lettuce

I collected a bunch of lettuce seeds from two years ago, and spread them all over the hill in the backyard to hope that they would grow some new plants.  The red romaine lettuce seemed to do very well, partially because their red color left them visible for me to …