Hello!

I have a lot of lettuce that I planted from starts growing in my garden boxes. I cant remember what kind of lettuce it is, but I have attached a picture of the biggest one:




My question is, how can you tell if lettuce is ripe? I doubt these are ripe, I am just wondering for future reference.

Thanks!

Jared

The nice thing about your leaf-lettuce is you can just pick some of the outside leaves. Better to graze than simply harvest. The window between mature and gone to seed is short...

There are two types of lettuce: Head Lettuce (ice burg come to mind first) and Leaf Lettuce. Leaf Lettuce is the best because there is no ripe. Just harvest the outside leaves and let the middle continue to grow. Once it decides to flower you won't want to eat the leaves anymore.