Fothergill's Lettuce Salad Bowl Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Lactuca sativa, a highly acclaimed, award-winning loose-leaf garden favourite.
• Plant Class: Annual Salad Vegetable, establishing rapidly from seed to provide a fast and continuous supply of fresh summer leaves.
• Growth Habit: Forms large, loose, non-hearting rosettes of decorative foliage that do not form a tight central head, making it exceptionally easy to manage.
• Leaf Quality: Produces beautifully tender, light green leaves with a wavy, deeply lobed shape resembling oak leaves, offering a soft, delicate texture and a sweet, crisp flavour.
• Bolt Resistance: Excellent stability against hot weather; it is remarkably slow to bolt (run to seed), ensuring a bitter-free and prolonged harvest right through the peak summer months.
• Flexible Harvesting: The perfect "cut-and-come-again" crop; simply snip away the outer leaves for daily salads and leave the central core to continuously regenerate fresh growth.
• Space Efficient: Its compact, bushy nature makes it ideal for edging vegetable beds, companion planting, or growing in shallow patio pots, window boxes, and urban balconies.

Care & Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Position: Sow thinly directly into well-prepared, fertile, and moisture-retentive soil from spring through midsummer. It thrives in full sun but highly appreciates light afternoon shade during intense summer heat.
• Maintenance & Successive Sowing: Keep the soil consistently damp to maintain sweet, tender leaves. For a non-stop rolling supply until autumn, sow a small batch of seeds every two to three weeks, and thin seedlings to 25cm (10in) apart if you wish to grow full, rounded "salad bowls."