Salad Bowl Lettuce seed Lactuca sativa
LATIN NAME: Lactuca sativa
COMMON NAME: Salad Bowl Lettuce
The lettuce opens its loose, ruffled, bright-green leaves in the low, open heads, and the whole plant stands in the neat, tender clumps. The low, fast-growing, annual plant carries the many soft, ruffled, deeply lobed or plain, bright-green leaves in the loose, open heads through the cool months, one of the fine, generous sights of the kitchen garden, holding the crisp leaves with the ease. The leaves have a very long record as the fine, crisp, tender greens of the cool tables, and the plant is a fine, historic presence of the kitchen garden. It is a plant of the open, sunny to lightly shaded, deep, rich, moist, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The lettuce is a historic subject of the plant science, and the loose heads keep showing up in the work on the cool-season greens. The way the many soft, ruffled, deeply lobed or plain, bright-green leaves form the loose, open heads has been examined closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the cool-season greens, the salad crops and the members of the daisy family. The crisp leaves and the fast habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the lettuce is a regular subject of the work on the loose heads of the cool world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The lettuce is a fine, generous plant of the kitchen garden and the cool table. The many soft, ruffled, deeply lobed or plain, bright-green leaves have a very long record as the fine, crisp, tender greens of the cool tables, the fresh leaves coming to the salads, the sandwiches, the wraps and the beds of the old kitchens, while the loose, open heads fill the cool-season rows with the ease. It is one of the fine choices for the kitchen garden, the pot and the study collection, and it has been written up in the culinary and the agricultural papers for the crisp leaves and the very long history. It is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny to lightly shaded, deep, rich, moist, well-drained garden.
Sow in the early spring or the autumn for the crisp heads, and the leaves will come fast.
To grow the lettuce from seed, sow the tiny, ridged seeds a little under the surface of the tray of fine, gritty soil, with a light press, keep the tray in a bright, open spot and water gently, then set the young plants out in the open ground. The seedlings are up within a week or two and grow on fast. With the sun or the light shade and the deep, rich, moist, well-drained ground, the crisp leaves will fill the cool months.
leaves are bright green in color. Harvest at any stage of growth.
Large rosettes of tender, deep-lobed oak-like leaves. Good resistance to bolting and good heat tolerance. Does not get bitter in hot weather. Produces baby leaves in 28 days and full size in 49-60 days.