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: Leaves are tender, crisp, sweet, shiny, lime-green, crinkled and extremely frilled to the point of being frizzy. Resists heat and cold. Cut-and-come-again (pick outer leaves first). Popular in Europe.
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 OP variety.
Pollinators: Self
Flies

Victory Seed Company sells seeds of 'Lollo Bionda'.

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  • Lettuce
  • Loose Leaf

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