GreenPeace.org<\/a>, bees pollinate human food crops that make up about 90% of the world’s nutrition.<\/p>\nGiven their importance in our ecosystem and food supply, I feel it is important to note that growing romaine lettuce is bee-friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Romaine lettuce, which are known botanically as Lactuca Sativa, are a type of vegetable that can easily be grown at home. Continue reading to learn the basics of growing romaine lettuce as well as common mistakes to avoid along the way. Best Time to Plant Romaine Lettuce This will depend largely on your local climate, but as a rule of thumb, begin to plant the romaine lettuce seeds 6 to 8 weeks before your first expected fall frost. This is the best time to ensure that the seedlings survive the weather. To check when romaine lettuce are most likely to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,232],"tags":[22,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningeats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningeats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningeats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningeats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningeats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningeats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningeats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningeats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningeats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningeats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningeats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}