Fothergill's Lettuce Gustav's Salad Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Lactuca sativa, an elite heirloom butterhead selected for superior eating quality over decades.
• Plant Class: Annual Salad Vegetable, establishing quickly from seed to yield highly satisfying, gourmet salad crops throughout the summer.
• Heritage & History: A genuine community heirloom with a rich 40-year lineage, originally saved and generously shared by a passion-driven grower named Gustav from the Southern Dutch isles.
• Texture & Flavour: Famous for its distinctively smooth, velvety leaves that offer an unbeatably tender, buttery texture and a sweet, full-bodied flavour far superior to modern commercial varieties.
• Visual Form: Produces beautifully formed, loose-leaf butterhead rosettes with soft green leaves that look as charming in a kitchen garden bed as they do on a plate.
• Garden Placement: Highly versatile; it performs beautifully in traditional outdoor vegetable plots, raised beds, or grows as a premium, handy salad crop in patio containers and window boxes.

Care & Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Position: Sow thinly directly into well-prepared, moisture-retentive, and well-drained soil from spring through summer. Position in full sun, though a small amount of afternoon shade is highly beneficial in midsummer to keep the roots cool.
• Maintenance: Keep the soil consistently moist to maintain the prized tender texture of the leaves and prevent the plants from bolting. Thin the seedlings early to give the rosettes ample room to expand into full, luxurious heads.