Fothergill's Lettuce Salad Bowl Red Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Lactuca sativa, a highly popular, award-winning loose-leaf garden favourite.
• Plant Class: Annual Salad Vegetable, establishing rapidly from seed to provide a fast, rolling supply of colourful summer leaves.
• Growth Habit: Forms beautiful, loose, non-hearting mounds of foliage that do not close into a tight central head, making leaf harvesting completely effortless.
• Visual Appeal: Features attractive, deeply cut, oak leaf-shaped foliage heavily brushed with deep burgundy-red tones, adding magnificent restaurant-quality colour to your garden and salad bowl.
• Flexible Harvesting: Ideal for continuous picking; simply snip individual outer leaves as required for daily meals, encouraging the central core to keep regenerating fresh growth. Alternatively, harvest the entire mature rosette for a high-yield display.
• Flavour & Texture: Yields beautifully tender, crisp leaves with a mild, sweet flavour and zero bitterness, making it a firm favourite for fresh, homegrown salads.
• Space Efficient: Its compact, shallow-rooted nature makes it perfect for edging sunny kitchen garden beds, companion planting, or growing in shallow patio pots, window boxes, and balconies.

Care & Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Position: Sow thinly directly into finely prepared, fertile, and moisture-retentive soil from spring through midsummer. It thrives in full sun, though a spot with light afternoon shade helps maintain maximum leaf tenderness during hot spells.
• Maintenance & Successive Sowing: Keep the soil consistently damp to encourage sweet leaf production and prevent bolting. For a non-stop supply until the autumn frost, sow a small batch of seeds every two to three weeks, and thin seedlings to 25cm (10in) apart if growing full, rounded heads.