You can't eat the leaves now; your homegrown lettuce tastes so bitter ... central stem while it's still green. If you're unsure if it's the right time to harvest the flower stalk, wait until ...

Rebecca Sears, resident green thumb at Ferry-Morse, claims that romaine lettuce is ready to harvest ‘around 65 days after planting’. She adds that the leaves want to be ‘dark green and 6-12 ...

Harvest these while they are young leaves as mature leaves can become bitter. Butterhead or bibb lettuce A loose-headed green variety, butterhead lettuce leaves overlap to form a rosette.

small green peppers began sprouting from blossoms. Sweet peas and most lettuce leaves take about 50-70 days to harvest from seedlings, so the farmstand cut the average growing time nearly in half.