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Red Lettuce Seeds - Description
- Variety: Red Salad Bowl
- Type: Curled Leaf Lettuce
- Colour: Red
- Packet Size: Approx. 1200 Seeds
- Heavy Heads of Deeply Cut & Deep Red Colour
- Attractive Oak Shaped Leaves
Red Lettuce Seeds - Sowing Instructions
- The red salad bowl lettuce is suited to both greenhouse & outdoors
- Sow march to July
- Harvest: Approx. 8 weeks after sowing
- Harvest by removing only the leaves that you require
- Preferred soil: Will do well in average garden soil
- Prefers pH below 6.5
- See how to grow tab for full growing instructions
Red Lettuce Seeds - Uses
- Perfect in salads
- Mix with green lettuce, tomato & scallions
- Best if picked first thing in the morning
Red Lettuce Seeds - Advantages
- Great colours
- Offers good variety to salad bowls
- Can be grown all year round
- Easy to grow
- Great flavour & texture
- Low cost
- Ideal for all types of gardeners
Index
- Sowing Instructions
- Thinning out
- How to Transplant
- Crop Maintenance
- How to Harvest
- Storage
- Pests & Diseases
Sowing Instructions
- Indoor grown seedlings & seedlings grown in seed beds will require transplanting later
- Transplant seedlings once they have developed the 4 /5 true leaves
- True leaves are the leaves which grow directly after the seed leaves
- Space seedlings in 15cm in rows. Space rows 20cm apart
- Soil: A rich soil is perfect for lettuce
- However lettuce also does well in average soil
- Doesn't like acidic soil. Keep ph below 6.5
- Well drained with plenty of humus is preferred
- The site should be open to full sunshine
- Suitable for raised beds or pots
Crop Maintenance
- Ensure seedlings are kept moist at all times
- Keep rows weeded
- Lettuce is known to bolt in hot weather - Best to avoid mid summer crops
Harvesting
- Water well the week before harvest
- Harvest as soon as lettuce heads are large enough
- Take lettuce heads early in the morning for optimum flavor and crispness
- Harvest is over when the central stem starts to form
Storage
- Lettuce will keep in the fridge for a few days
- Best to harvest lettuce when you need it, does not keep well
Pests & Diseases
- Pests: Slugs are the main cause of concern
- Damage: Slugs eat the leaves
- Bolting and scorching is quite common
- In damp conditions, the fungal disease grey mold can occur
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