Fothergill's Lettuce Little Gem Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Lactuca sativa, an elite, award-winning selection celebrated for consistent excellence.
• Plant Class: Annual Salad Vegetable, establishing rapidly from seed to provide a quick, dependable harvest of fresh salad hearts.
• Growth Habit: Forms neat, compact, and small-headed semi-cos heads, allowing you to maximise your growing space and yields.
• Texture & Flavour: Produces tightly packed, pale-green hearts with thick, succulent leaves that offer an unbeatable, crisp crunch and a naturally sweet, non-bitter flavor.
• Sunlight Position: Thrives best when positioned in full sun, which encourages the development of dense, well-filled hearts.
• Versatile Space Saver: Perfect for small gardens and urban balconies; it grows beautifully in shallow patio pots, window boxes, or tucked away as a companion plant between rows of tomatoes and radishes.
• Guaranteed Quality: These premium-grade Fothergill's seeds are rigorously tested to ensure high germination rates and straightforward growing success.

Care & Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Position: Sow thinly directly into fertile, well-drained, and moisture-retentive soil from spring right through to midsummer.
• Maintenance & Harvesting: Keep the soil consistently moist to maintain the leaves' juicy texture and prevent bolting. Thin out young seedlings early to around 15–20cm (6–8in) apart to give the small hearts room to fill out. Harvest the whole plump head once it feels firm to a gentle squeeze.