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
Plant Height: tall, open head
Leaves: Other: Thick, shiny, savoyed, lime green crunchy leaves. Nutty flavor. Heat tolerant, resists tip burn. Resists bolting and some diseases. Cut-and-come-again.
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. 48 DTM. OP variety.
Pollinators: Self
Flies

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Location: Augusta GA
Date: 2023-04-01
Location: MoonDance Farm, NC
Date: 2011-05-09
Close-up of Nevada lettuce head
Location: My garden, Willow Valley Communities, Lakes Campus, Willow Street, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2019-07-07
Location: My garden, Willow Valley Communities, Lakes Campus, Willow Street, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2019-07-07
Location: MoonDance Farm, NC
Date: 2011-05-09
Nevada lettuce heads - close spacing (growing comfortably with ca

Photo courtesy of Harris Seeds
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