When you learn where the majority of the lettuce that we buy at the grocery store comes from

and how it's treated, you are never going to want to buy a box of salad again.

You are going to want to grow your own salad, your own lettuce right outside your door.

And guess what?

It's super easy to do.

That's why this week, in the Best of Growing Joy series, I'm reaching

back into the archives and bringing our episode on how to grow your own salad, how to grow

lettuce with my friend Nicole from Gardnery to reveal why lettuce is the ultimate

beginner plant for a gardener and how one tiny seed can turn into a daily harvest and how to grow enough lettuce to constantly

be harvesting for your salads. It's such a great informative episode. I hope you love it and that

you grow delicious lettuce all season long. Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants

successfully, but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in

our lives by doing so. I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of

Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, Speaker, Podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant friend.

On Growing Joy with Plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care, gardening tutorials, and wellness through the lens of plants.

Plant care is self-care on growing joy.

Nicole, welcome back.

Thank you so much, Maria, for having me.

It's been too long, but I'm thrilled to get to chat with you.

A lot has happened since we last got to talk.

Yeah, I'm trying to think the last time

you were on the show, I guess, was 2021. We did an episode about raised bed gardening, and that was so

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