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I’m just curious why there is a shortage of lettuce. Restaurants and stores have nothing. Even Costco has nothing. Does anybody kno why? I eat a lot of salad, now I don’t kno what to eat that’s healthy like salad. I know other vegetables but lettuce is pretty important.

I miss lettuce too. I've started using more cabbage, green peppers, kale..grated turnip, radishes.celery..I am going to start making sprouts as well...I used to do that years ago, and you can get sprouting seeds for radish, alfalfa, and many others...

The drought combined with a virus in the lettuce crop is why there is no lettuce. Supposedly by the first part of December, Arizona crops are supposed to fill in.  
Lettuce really isn’t that important. Lots of other vegetables to choose from. Get creative, you will be surprised at what you will come up with.

Sprouts and cabbage to the rescue. I am looking at trying microgreens too as I have all the supplies from seed starting anyway, I just need some growing medium.  
 
I found it hard to find lettuce/greens seeds this past growing season. Hopefully not a sign of things to come. Certain varieties of swiss chard were absent and no one had kale.  
 
Good thing about humans is that we're pretty flexible about what we eat, enjoy and thrive on. We just have to look around.

I was in COOP tonight they had lots and $4.99 a head.

Oy!!

Giant Tiger is stocked with different choices, a gem of a store!

Superstore has head lettuce for $5 a head.

Yesterday (Friday ) at Safeway.  
 
Organic was little pricey as usual but the rest regular  
Prices as usual good variety,  
 
(Sorry didn’t mean to i:nclude or quote the seed post. )  
 
Edited by Mac72, 2022-11-19 11:42:50

I will try there thanks

For $5. I say let it rot on the store shelf!

I never advocate for food waste, but I can grow A LOT of sprouts for $5. All you need is a 750ml-1L jar and some screening (my original set up was a reused pickle jar and the screen consisted of leftover window screen from repairing the window and a rubber band from broccoli lol. I've since upgraded to an actual mason jar and a "nice" screen for like $8).