Why pay nearly $10 per pound for fresh gourmet lettuce (that might not be all that fresh) when you can grow your own custom lettuce blends right at home, ready to be picked and eaten whenever you’re in the mood for a truly fresh salad?Lettuce is an easy to grow crop that’s ready to eat quickly, often in less than a month. You can even harvest it after a couple weeks for micro greens. It prefers cool weather, such as in the spring and fall, and lots of light. During the summer it can be difficult to keep the plants cool enough, resulting in bitter leaves or the plants bolting to seed.There are many different lettuces and other salad greens (like chervil, purslane) available. I recommend growing leaf lettuces, rather than head lettuces (like iceberg). This makes it easy to snip of a few l teeth whitening eaves whenever you want. The lettuce plant will keep making new leaves for you to eat!If you’re new to growing your own lettuce and don’t know which ones you’ll like or which will grow best for you, try a prepackaged mix of seeds. These can usually be found where you buy seeds locally, or can be purchased online, such as the Master Chef Blend, Organic Salad Bowl Mix and the Summer Glory Blend with heat resistant varieties.You can start your lettuce seeds wither in the container they’re going to live in or in smaller starter containers and transplant them later. I like to start mine separately so I can arrange the plants in a larger container to give an attractive design. Cover the seeds with a very thin layer of soil and keep them moist. Indoors they should sprout in two days to a week.