Fothergill's Lettuce Saladin Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Lactuca sativa, an elite crisphead selection engineered for high reliability and market-grade quality.
• Plant Class: Annual Salad Vegetable, establishing quickly to provide a substantial, heavy crop of premium salad heads throughout the summer.
• Head Quality: Yields impressively large, firm, and dense hearts made of tightly wrapped, juicy green leaves that naturally protect the sweet interior.
• Texture & Flavour: Delivers that classic, ultra-refreshing iceberg bite—remarkably crisp, succulent, and bursting with a clean, mild flavour completely free of bitterness.
• Tip Burn Resistance: Specially bred to resist tip burn (the brown, crisping leaf edges caused by uneven calcium uptake during hot spells), ensuring your crop remains pristine and appetizing.
• Standing Ability: Possesses excellent garden stamina; once mature, the heads can hold and stand in the soil for a prolonged period without running to seed immediately, giving you a wider, less rushed harvesting window.

Care & Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Position: Sow thinly directly into well-cultivated, fertile, and moisture-retentive soil from spring through midsummer. Position in full sun, though a spot with light afternoon shade is highly beneficial during intense midsummer heat waves.
• Thinning & Water: To allow this large-hearted variety enough space to fully expand and tighten, thin young seedlings early to around 30cm (12in) apart. Provide consistent, deep watering to ensure the leaves maintain their signature crisp, succulent texture.