Lettuce Type: | Batavian |
Plant Habit: | Herb/Forb |
Life cycle: | Annual |
Sun Requirements: | Full Sun |
Water Preferences: | Mesic |
Plant Height: | 9-15 inches |
Plant Spread: | 6 inches |
Leaves: | Other: Crisp deep-green leaves with very frilled deep red edges and somewhat prominent branching veins. Harvest as loose leaves or semi-open head. A summer lettuce: slow to bolt. Also very cold hardy. Full flavor, not bitter. |
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. 55-60 DTM. Old French alpine OP variety. |
Pollinators: | Self Flies |
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