General Plant Information (Edit)
| Plant Habit: |
Herb/Forb
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| Life cycle: |
Annual
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| Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun
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| Plant Spread: |
8-10" |
| Leaves: |
Other: Grown for its edible leaves. Large butterhead type. Dark green, lime green, AND deep red leaves. Cold tolerant.
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| Uses: |
Vegetable
Salad greens
Suitable as Annual
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| Propagation: Seeds: |
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. 65 DTM. Bolts quickly. OP variety listed in 1885 French seed catalog.
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- Celtuce
- Lettuce
- Loose Leaf
Posted by
RickCorey (Everett WA 98204 - Zone 8a) on Jul 5, 2013 4:56 PM concerning plant:
'Cracoviensis' grows fast and may become large, but it bolts very quickly in heat. The leaves don't coarsen and become bitter, though.
The bolting seed stalks are also sweet and edible: raw like celery or peeled and eaten like asparagus (like flowering Bok Choy - Yu Choy Sum).
Leaves are red and green, with a splotch of darker purple in the center of the rosette.
'Cracoviensis' is a "four-season" lettuce - it's very cold-hardy and has over-wintered in NJ and MA.
'Cracoviensis' is a French heirloom. Vilmorin-Andrieux called it a distinct type ("Asparagus Lettuce"), in The Vegetable Garden, (the 1885 edition. not 1981). Vilmorin called it "Red Celtuce"
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