Data specific to Lettuces (Edit)
Lettuce Type: Batavian

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Other: Large, dark green crisphead lettuce for summer. Heat tolerant. White seeds.
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. Italian heirloom listed in Vilmorin before 1851 (OP variety). 80 DTM.
Pollinators: Self
Flies

Common names
  • Lettuce

Comments:
  • Posted by RickCorey (Everett WA 98204 - Zone 8a) on Sep 11, 2013 5:57 PM concerning plant:
    From Volume 6 of the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1851:

    "Neapolitan Cabbage Lettuce - - Laitue Chou de Naples, from Messrs. Vilmorin.
    ...
    Compact, finely blanched, crisp and tender. Leaves having the margins dentate and and a little curled. As in the last season, so in this, it has proved the best Cabbage Lettuce."

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