Data specific to Lettuces (Edit)
Lettuce Type: Looseleaf

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Other: Grown for its very frilly, edible, light green leaves with light red tips. Decorative enough to be a garnish but tasty. Very cold hardy.
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. 58 DTM. OP variety from Royal Sluis in 1987.
Pollinators: Self
Flies

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  • Lettuce

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Location: My garden
Date: 2017-11-15
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Location: My garden
Date: 2017-11-15
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Location: My garden
Date: 2017-11-15
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Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2020-07-25

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Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2020-07-11
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