Add color and excellent flavor to your salads! Provides a constant supply!
Distinctive bronzy-red leaves add a spicy-sweet flavor to your summer salads. Produces a constant supply for the season!
Plant red salad bowl lettuce seeds in prepared soil 1/4 inch deep. Thin plants to 12" apart. The young thinnings can be eaten and are considered "baby greens". Be sure to pick the outside leaves regularly for a continuous supply and to encourage continued growth. Plant again in late summer for a second harvest in fall.
Seed Information:
- Lifecycle: annual (vegetable)
- Sowing Method: direct
- Time to Maturity/Harvest: about 1 1/2 months
- Sun Requirement: sun Ideal
- Germination: 60°F
- Spacing: 8"
- Depth: 1/4"
- Height: 6-10"
- Seeds/Oz: 25000
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Lbs./Acre: 1
- Uses: small leaf salad, good source of potassium, magnesium minerals, vitamin k
- Heirloom Year: 1951 Heirloom
- Plant Scientific Name: Lactuca sativa
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