Winter Lettuce

Growing Guides How to grow winter lettuce

Email this page

Contents:

Date Published:
15/10/2007

Lettuce is the most widely used salad crops in Britain – handy then, that it's easy to grow and can be raised well into winter.

This level of popularity has led to the breeding of hundreds of fancy leaf shapes and colours, many of which are available for home growing and are largely more flavoursome than the tiny selection you can buy in supermarkets.

Advertisement

Winter lettuce (sown in late summer or autumn) generally tastes better and lacks the bitterness sometimes found in summer-harvested plants.

What you will need

  • Packet of lettuce seed
  • Seed trays or small pots (if sowing indoors)
  • Seed and cutting compost (if sowing indoors)
  • String and nails to mark out sowing and planting rows
  • Swan-necked (English) hoe
  • Fertiliser

More Jamie At Home How-tos


Recipe Finder

Show only:

Advertisement

Watch Jamie video clips

Growing Guides

Jamie at Home

jamie-logo-tile

Peas and beans Taste My Tips Got any tips on cooking veg? Share them here.

Advertisement


Food