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I want to know about growing them and how many on each plant?

They are easy to grow..by plant or seed, which way are you buying them? Cabbage gives you one cabbage per plant, head lettuce also. Leaf lettuce gives you many leaves that you can just clip as you need.

Just remember they like cooler temps, lettuce will bolt if let go too dry and with too much heat.

ok tamara what abou the ice burg lettuce i found by chance that my garden place where i live sells them but it seems it has leaves before the lettuce it self grows.

The lettuce only forms one head after it starts to grow awhile.

ok cool

The other kind Tamara mentioned, Opalrose, is Leaf Lettuce, which you grow from seed. We like growing that because it is easy to grow and very tasty. You can even grow it in a windowbox if you don't have yard space for it. You just sprinkle the seed in a row and cover it with a scant amount of soil. Then as it grows, you just clip off the leaves you want and leave the rest of the plant in the dirt. It will keep growing and allow the baby leaves to mature. It is also pretty!

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I, like Merme, prefer growing leaf lettuce. I can't figure out what people do with an entire row of head lettuce other than sell it at market. When we want a salad we cut what we need.

bestofour i just had found the seeds at a gardening place thats all

Oh. Plant what you've got then and let us know how it goes.

accually all the vegie seeds and plants are coming up nice ly so far.

do you have a camera?

yes why

so you can post pictures of your plants progress. I like looking at pictures.

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we have quite few gardens on this properity