As a base for a salad, lettuce takes some beating and gone are the days of warm, limp lettuce leaves, because nowadays we can choose from a wide selection of crispy, crunchy leaves that come in many colours to brighten up our salad bowl.
When it comes to growing lettuce, anyone can have a go. It can be grown in the garden, greenhouse, polytunnel, cold frame and it grows particularly well in containers on a patio or balcony. I’ve even seen it growing in window boxes where not only did it look good, it was easy to harvest