Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) is an annual plant of the daisy family, Asteraceae. It is most often grown as a leaf vegetable, but sometimes for its stem and seeds. Lettuce is most often used for salads, ...

An unusual annual herb, known as the large leaved basil, with frilly edged leaves reaching up to 12cm long and having a strong basil flavour. Short spikes of white flowers appear in late summer.

The plant is a ... mind that darker red leaf varieties won’t maintain their vibrant color under low light quality, so ...

With summer just around the corner, now is the perfect time to sow basil seeds. This wonder plant has been around ... potatoes and lettuce. Letting some of your basil plants go to flower brings ...

False colour scanning electron micrograph of an open stomata on the surface of a leaf of lettuce (Lactuca sativa). A stomata is a small pore found on the underside of plant leaves and stems that allow ...