Variety selection of balcony lettuce

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Head lettuce

butter lettuce

endive

purple leaf lettuce

red leaf lettuce

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Do you like to eat lettuce? It has a slightly bitter taste and is chewy and can be eaten raw or fried. It is essential for hot pot and salad. So which variety is more suitable for you to grow at home?

Head lettuce

Lettuce

It is the most commonly eaten lettuce. Almost everything this guy makes is delicious, and he is always followed by a large group of slim girls. I really envy him!

Butter lettuce

It is taller than street lettuce, has a thicker texture, and looks like the leaves are loose. Light green, slightly wrinkled leaves. Although the name contains the word "cream", don't be fooled, it has nothing to do with the taste. However, butter lettuce has a large number of fans in the raw food field, and is widely grown at home.

Chicory

It looks a bit like baby cabbage, but it is indeed a member of the lettuce family. The taste is unique, and small blue flowers bloom on the top of the plant, which are edible and ornamental.

Purple leaf lettuce

A variant of lettuce, the taste and nutrition are the same, but the color is prettier. Under normal circumstances, the color of the leaves is reddish, and will turn purple when the temperature is low.

Red leaf lettuce

Let’s think this is This friend not only likes the green color of butter lettuce, but also the purple color of purple leaf lettuce. It often appears in raw dishes (especially Western food), and its appearance can make an originally simple cold dish become rich. But home cultivation is relatively rare.

butter lettuce

endive

purple leaf lettuce

red leaf lettuce

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