Lettuce - Baby Leaf Blend Seeds, OSC

Baby Leaf Blend Lettuce. Multi-coloured extravaganza! Prized by gourmet sous-chefs as an ideal mixture for sophisticated salad presentations. Thanks to OSC, you can grow in your own garden and enjoy in your kitchen the same exquisite miniature salad greens served at up-scale hotels and resorts. Contains lettuces Grand Rapids, Royal Red, Oakleaf, Salad Bowl, Ruby Red, Prizehead, Buttercrunch and Romaine as well as Spinach and Ciccoria Catalogna.

Attributes

Light Requirement: Full Sun
Planting Method: Direct Seed
Growth Habit: Bushy
Days to Emergence: 7 - 10
Days to Harvest 38
Height: 7.5 - 30cm (3 - 12in)

How to Grow

Lettuce is a sun-loving cool weather crop that grows best in organic, well drained soil. Sow as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring, then every two weeks thereafter to ensure a continuous supply. Sow about 3mm (1/8in) deep in rows 45cm (18in) apart. An even supply of moisture during the entire growth period is imperative for success. Harvest leaf lettuce by either pulling the entire plant or by cutting leaves from the main stem at least 2.5cm (1in) above the base – this will allow the plant to sprout new leaves. Once lettuce bolts (starts to produce a rapidly growing flower stem) leaves become bitter.