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All you need to know about growing lettuce

Lettuce takes averagely from 45 to 100 days to mature and be ready for harvesting depending on the variety. Photo: Courtesy

Lettuce is a leafy vegetable that is eaten raw as a salad or cooked.

It has a crunchy texture with a mildly sweet taste but is hardly consumed in many households in Kenya.

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