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$2.25

Organic Red Salad Bowl, Lactuca sativa .100 grams

Light:	Full Sun/Part Shade
Zones:
Plant Height:
Seedling Depth:	1/8"
Days to Maturity:	28 days baby, 55 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. Dark red leaves oak leaves. Use in salad mixes but or loose leaf heads. Matures early and is very slow to bolt. Grows well in all seasons but color is best in cooler weather.

Disease Resistance: Tip Burn

Approx. 150 seeds per package.