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$2.25

Organic Rouge d’ Hiver, Lactuca sativa .100 grams

Light:	Full Sun/Part Sun
Zones:
Plant Height:
Seedling Depth:	1/8"
Days to Maturity:	28 days baby, 60 full size

When to Sow:

Sow when no danger of frost. Start transplants 3-4 weeks before setting outside. Sow seeds 4 per inch in flats or small-cell plug trays, barely covering with fine soil. If sowing into flats, transplant 2 weeks later into plug trays, pots, or into another flat at 1-2” apart.

Seedling Rate: Babyleaf: 60 seeds/ft, in 2” bands.

Full size: 3 seeds every 8-10”.

Row Spacing: Babyleaf - ¾” between bands, 16 rows/36” bed.

Full size - 12-18” or 3 rows/36” bed, 5’ centers.

Plant Spacing: Babyleaf: Continuous band.

Full size: 8-12”.

Harvest:

Cut lettuce holds best when harvested in the morning and cooled rapidly. For salad mix or baby leaf production, harvest individual leaves when they reach desired size, or cut evenly across the bed making sure to stay above the growing tip. For a continuous harvest, sow lettuce every 3 weeks.

Special Features

Lettuce (Latuca sativa) is cool season annual in the Compositae family, which includes endive, escarole, chicory, globe artichoke, sunflower, Jerusalem artichoke, salsify, and burdock. HEIRLOOM Used as a baby leaf variety or full-size head. Reddish-bronze to deep red on tips and dark green bases. Rouge d’ Hiver or Red of Winter is a variety does particularly well in the cool conditions of the fall. Frost tolerant.

Disease Resistance: Tip Burn, Lettuce Drop, White Mold, Sclerotinia

Approx. 150 seeds per package.