Days to Maturity: 65

These loose light green leaves are delicious and stand up to heat and drought as well as some frost. Delicious crumpled leaves are perfect for salads or lettuce wraps.

Lettuce is a fairly hardy, cool-weather vegetable that's loved for its variety of textures, flavors, and colors. Versatile and fast growing, lettuce can be harvested at most any stage, is delicious raw or cooked, and in warmer climates can be grown year-round.

When starting lettuce from seed, do not cover the seeds, as light aids germination. Instead, place them on the surface of your soil-starting medium.