Lettuce gone wild. Published: Jan. 09, 2009, 10:34 a.m. By . Melissa D. Newton; ... and came up the next year naturally in places I never intended lettuce to grow.

Ideal Lettuce-Growing Conditions. Lettuce seeds won’t sprout when soil temperatures are above 80°F but they will ... This is a carryover from wild lettuce that originated in the ...

The newly identified gene “turns on” in most lettuce seeds when the seed is exposed to moisture at warm temperatures, increasing production of abscisic acid. In the wild ancestor that the researchers ...

A new DNA analysis of more than 400 types of lettuce reveals the vegetable's humble beginnings as a wild plant grown by ancient Egyptians to the common vegetable we eat today.

Planting iceberg lettuce seeds is easy and can be done either directly in the garden or in pots. Sow seeds about 1/4 inch deep and 6-12 inches apart to allow each plant enough space to form a full ...

While British astronaut Tim Peake was on board at the International Space Station in 2015 and 2016, he supported a project involving a pack of "rocket lettuce" (arugula) seeds, snapping multiple ...

As a grower of small grains and seed crops, the article titled “China lettuce a challenging weed for many wheat farmers” caught my eye. Thinking it was a new Asiatic […] ...

Lettuce is no different. Around 6,000 years ago in the Caucasus region, people were growing wild lettuce so they could use it to harvest plant oil from their seeds. The Greeks and Romans liked these ...