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0 Organic Oscarde, Lactuca sativa .100 grams

Light:	Full Sun/Part Shade
Zones:
Plant Height:
Seedling Depth:	1/8"
Days to Maturity:	29 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. Golden-red, softly lobed oak leaf with speckled centers; may be used in salad mixes or for full size leaf lettuce.. Open heads are compact and packed full. Grow in cool seasons as Oscarde has a tendency to bolt in the long days of summer.

Disease Resistance: Downy Mildew (races 1-16, 19, 21)

Approx. 150 seeds per package.