Crop of the Week: Butterhead lettuce
Butter lettuce, as its name suggests, is so tender that it melts in the mouth like butter.
PHOTO BY KURT NOLTE/YUMA COUNTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
Crop of the Week: Butterhead lettuce.
• Butter lettuces have small, round, loosely formed heads with soft, butter-textured leaves ranging from a multitude and degree of red and rosy colors along with greens and yellow tinges. The flavor is sweet and succulent.• In 2011, Yuma County farmers produced more than 1,2.
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