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Lettuce, Romaine Seeds
Lactuca sativa
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The Lettuce Romaine Seeds provide a delicious, crisp addition to your garden and kitchen.
Romaine lettuce develops elongated heads with long, ribbed leaves. The coarse outer leaves of this cool weather crop are dark green, while the inner leaves are a lighter green. This Romaine variety is of splendid quality for Caesar salad.
- SKU: 143750
- Common Name: Lettuce
- Botanical Name: Lactuca sativa
Growing Information
Safe
for Bees
Grows
Best In:
Full sun|Part Sun
Days to
Germination:
7 - 10 days
Water
Needs:
Moist 5 cm (2 in.) per week
Days to
Maturity:
65 - 85 days
Best
Container Size:
30 cm+ (12 in.+)
Key Features
- Plant Type: Vegetable
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual (plant every year)
- Seed Type: Heirloom
- Fill Weight (grams): 800 mg
- Approximate Seed Count: 725-775
- Planting Method: Direct Sow
- Water Needs: Moist 5 cm (2 in.) per week
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Growth Habit: Romaine
- Companion Planting:
Plant near chives, onions, oregano, peas, radish, basil, zinnia. Chives, onions, and garlic can repel aphids and other pests by disguising the scent of the lettuce with their own aromatic properties. Basil is believed to enhance both the taste and development of lettuce. Radishes can serve as a useful decoy crop to attract flea beetles away from lettuce.
- Flavour: Slightly stronger taste than lettuce
- Preparation Ideas: The preferred lettuce for Caesar salad.
Instructions
Lettuce seeds should be sown directly into the garden when the soil is warm and all danger of frost is passed. Optimum soil temperature (not air temperature) should be 5-27°C (40-81°F) for seeds to germinate. Planting at a lower temperature will delay germination. Space seeds and plant to the depth indicated below. Press seeds into the soil to ensure good contact and cover with 1.3 cm (1/2 in.) of soil. After planting, water seeds with a gentle mist or shower. It is critical to keep the soil consistently moist, but not soggy during germination. When your seedlings reach a height of a few centimetres (inches) and have developed 2 or 3 pairs of leaves, it is important to thin them out, according to the plant spacing indicated below. Thinnings can be used as baby greens. Do not allow the soil to become dry, as young plants have underdeveloped roots and can quickly dehydrate, particularly in windy conditions. Lettuce grows quickly and more seeds can be succession planted every 3 weeks until August for a continuous supply of lettuce.
- Planting Depth: 1.3 cm (1/2in.)
- Seed Spacing: Sow lettuce seeds roughly 2.5 cm (1 in.) apart in rows, keeping rows approximately 45 cm (18 in.) apart.
- Plant Spacing: 20 cm (8 in.)
- Instructions for Nutrient Care: Apply SUPERThrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.
Suggestions
Growing Suggestions:
*The key to a high-quality crop of tender succulent leaves is consistent moisture. If lettuce plants are heat or drought-stressed, the leaves turn bitter and the plants will bolt. Bolting is when the plants switch from leaf production to flower production and a flower stalk emerges.
- Delay bolting by covering plants with a shade cloth so they get filtered light. Be sure to maintain watering throughout the warmest parts of the growing season.
- Promote leaf production by regularly feeding with a water-soluble plant food such as SUPERthrive.
- Harvest lettuce in the morning, before the sun hits the plant, when full-size but young and tender. Mature lettuce gets bitter and woody and will go bad quickly.
- Wilted lettuce leaves? Place the leaves in a bowl of cold water with ice cubes and soak for about 15 minutes, spin them dry and they are ready for salads.
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Overall rating: 4.3265305 / 5 from 49 reviews.
AI Generated Review Summary
Romaine lettuce seeds offer a crisp addition to your garden and kitchen, known for their elongated heads and ribbed leaves. Customers appreciate the taste, flavor, and quality of the lettuce, though germination rates have mixed reviews.
Summary topics
- Germination Rate: 20%
- Taste and Quality: 24%
Review topics: [seeds, lettuce, germination, taste, growing, leaves, tape].
Review highlights
- "Great flavor lettuce, very fast germination and growth" —
- "Great germination rate and beautiful young tender leaves." —
- "Fast germination and propagation." —
Reviews
Good germination and fast growth
"Good germination and fast growth"
"Never any issues with McKenzie Seeds. All the plants are coming up!"
Great Seeds
"I really like the seed tape. It works so nice when trying not to overplant. It germinates well. The lettuce always tastes great."
Romaine
"Great flavour and slow to bolt"
Romaine Lettuce
"Seeds have spouted nicely and we have harvested a couple meals already. Doing well despite a dousing of liquid dish soap by my 2 year old Grandson!"
Great tasting
"Great tasting"
Veggie garden
"Had great success last year with these seeds!"
Very Good
"Seeds came up in unheated greenhouse . Very happy with them ."
Majority germinated
"Majority germinated"
