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Lettuce and other salad leaves are also relatively easy to grow and need to be picked regularly so that they don’t set seed. They are then close to hand and easy to use whenever you or your neighbors need a quick, healthy meal at home. You’ll feel a real sense of pride when you serve and share food using ingredients like salad leaves and herbs sour

So the main shoot must be dominant and grow steadily upward or the plant is classified as a shrub, which has many smaller trunks—or rather branches—that originate from a common rootstock.