No garden is complete without easy to grow, delicious and nutritious loose-leaf lettuce. This year grow your own crispy, crunchy tossed green salads.
Sowing: Lettuce is a cool-weather crop. Select a sunny location, cultivate and fertilize soil with vegetable food. Plant in early spring soon as soil can be worked. Sow seed sparingly, firming soil over row. Repeat at 2-week intervals as long as weather is cool-spring and fall. For earliest crop start seeds indoors.
Care: Water lightly and regularly. Protect from pest.
Harvest: Pull entire plant or cut off 1-2" (3-5cm) above ground.
Your Health: Contains Calcium, Iron and Vitamins A, B1, B2, Niacin and C.
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FROM OUR SEED CATALOG:
- All America Winner. Produces a deliciously flavored, very early, loose-leaf lettuce. Crumpled, maroon tinged leaves are slow to bolt. 45 days.
15,000/oz. 7 days, 70F. Sow directly into sterilized soil. Grow plants cool, 55-60F. Saleable in 4-5 weeks.
More information:
Planting
Depth
| Seed
Spacing
| Spacing
between
Rows
| Days to
Germination
| Spacing
after
Thinning
| Days to
Maturity
| 1/4" /
6mm
| 1" /
3cm | 15" /
38 cm | 7-14 | 6-8" /
15-21 cm | 40-60 |
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