Data specific to Lettuces (Edit)
Lettuce Type: Looseleaf

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Other: Red, semi-frilly, curly, loose leaves. Tasty as baby leaves, or harvest after mature. Slow to bolt.
Uses: Vegetable
Salad greens
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Needs specific temperature: 40F to 75F. Fastest from 60F to 70F.
Days to germinate: 2-15
Depth to plant seed: 1/8 inch deep
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: Lettuce almost never cross-pollinates. It has perfect flowers and usually self-pollinates before opening.
Pollinators: Self
Flies

Common names
  • Lettuce

Comments:
  • Posted by wildflowers (North East Texas - Zone 7b) on Jan 8, 2014 12:14 PM concerning plant:
    This is a very ornamental lettuce with deep red semi-frilly leaves on large rosettes. Makes a tasty and attractive addition to salads, and the ruffled red leaves look pretty in the garden. This one is known to be heat tolerant too and can be grown year-round.
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chelle On March 20, 2015 Seeds sown
Direct sown - SW porch (beans and cukes) bed

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