Iceberg varieties might be worth trying.
I normally don't eat lettuce (I like kale and arugula a lot more), but I got some "Iceberg lettuce" seeds from someone at a local seed/plant exchange. She was so enthusiastic about it, and said it was nothing like the grocery store variety, that I finally tried it. And I like it! I've been picking it as a leaf lettuce -- outer leaves, I guess. They are dark green with slightly frilly edges and a little crunchy. In the garden, the center leaves are just starting to curl in on themselves, maybe to make a head? Or maybe if I'd left the outer leaves, they would have helped form the head? In any case, I'm enjoying the leaves I pick one at a time.
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