Wild Lettuce lactuca Virosa and Prickly Lettuce lactuca | Etsy

Wild Lettuce (Lactuca virosa), is grown medicinally for the milky white sap that oozes from the plant when cut or broken. Propagation of Wild Lettuce: Scatter seeds on moist soil, and press them lightly into the soil. Just barely cover the seed, as Lactuca needs sunlight to germinate. Germination takes 5 days to two weeks. Transplant seedlings to rich, moist soil and full sun, spacing them 2 ft apart. Wild Lettuce is a biennial, which means in the first year it will make a rosette of…

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