Lettuce Lettuce is a versatile and fast-growing vegetable, but it still needs the right spacing to thrive. For leaf lettuce, plant seeds about 4 to 6 inches apart.

Once they come up, thin the plants to the appropriate spacing; the average spacing is about 10 inches between plants. For best quality, lettuce must be encouraged to grow rapidly.

Once lettuce is a few inches tall, plants should be thinned to an 8- to 10-inch spacing. These thinned plants can be eaten as can the individual leaves from growing plants.

Thinning of lettuce seedlings is typically necessary to achieve proper spacing of plants. Leaf lettuces should be thinned to 3-5 inches apart while Romaine and Butterhead lettuces can be thinned ...

The lettuce can be grown as a separate plant throughout its lifecycle in a small pot of just 4-inch size. Most vegetable plants may require a container size of at least 12 inches in height and width.

The lettuce plants in the automated thinning treatment were more uniform in in-row spacing and individual plant weight, and larger in plant and heart weight. However, yield benefits were not ...

As you plant seedlings or direct-seed vegetables, even if you have drip irrigation, water them in well with a hose for best results. When temperatures are in the 70s or 80s, hand water seedlings ...

Keeping astronauts healthy in space means plenty of greens. But how do you grow them safely in orbit? One man’s lettuce may hold the answer. Frank Morton was sitting with a friend in New York ...

There’s a reason why lettuce is one of the most popular hydroponic crops for beginners and experts. The crisp, leafy green is easy to grow hydroponically, plus it's super versatile in the ...