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Lettuce, Red Sails Organic Seeds
Lactuca sativa
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The Lettuce Red Sails Organic Seeds bring vibrant color and rich flavor to your garden and kitchen.
This All American Selections (AAS) winner produces loose-leaf lettuce with bronze-red leaves. It is very heat tolerant and slow to bolt without getting bitter. A fast grower that can be used as baby greens since it is ready to harvest after just 2 or 3 weeks and grows to a full head in just over 6 weeks. The nutritious soft-textured crinkled leaves add a buttery flavor to salads.
- SKU: 143597
- 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:
20 - 45 days
Best
Container Size:
45 cm+ (18 in.+)
Key Features
- Plant Type: Vegetable
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual (plant every year)
- Seed Type: Open Pollinated
- Fill Weight (grams): 700 mg
- Approximate Seed Count: 625-675
- Planting Method: Direct Sow
- Water Needs: Moist 5 cm (2 in.) per week
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Growth Habit: Loose leaf
- 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: Sweet, non bitter
- Preparation Ideas: Make a delicious colorful salad with leaves from this variety.
- Awards: All America Selections (AAS) Winner
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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Awesome
"I grew a few of these indoor as an experiment & they are currently performing super well, I harvest a few leaves every other day. The pop of colour also adds a little razzle dazzle to your plate."
We grow using a hydroponic
"We grow using a hydroponic system"
