By Bailey

Summer salads taste better with homegrown lettuce.
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I’m lucky to have a balcony outside my kitchen – it’s ideal for growing all those handy cooking staples. Herbs go without saying – however my pot of lettuce proved the most beneficial last summer. Lettuce is the little black dress of vegetables – it goes with everything. Healthy and packed with fresh flavour when picked straight from the soil, it’ll save you many a penny during the sunny months.

I grow cut-and-come-again lettuce, which does exactly what it says on the packet. You pick the outer leaves to eat, which allows new leaves to grow up the centre. It’s like you have your very own boomerang salad – designed to give you no excuse but to eat healthily.

Here are my top tips to growing luscious lettuce in just one pot…

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