Lettuce : Salad Bowl Blend

Custom blend of green and red lettuces.

Fill your bowl with the mixed color of Salad bowl! This blend has it all: delicious, pretty, sweet leaves in a heat tolerant variety. The greens and reds look beautiful in salads and sandwiches. Harvest young for terrific baby greens. Successive sowings will produce sweet lettuce spring through late fall!

Asteraceae Lactuca sativa

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Lettuce: Mix

Salad Bowl Blend

These varieties have soft, loosely packed heads and very good flavor. They are fairly easy to grow and tolerate some heat. Under good growing conditions, these varieties can be one of the fastest growing crops.

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Basics

Ease of Growing: Easy
Grown as: Annual
Days to Maturity: 33-40 (Spring/Summer), 35-40 (Fall/Winter)
Growing Habit: -
Hardiness: Half Hardy

Mesclun lettuces will thrive in mild weather with consistent moisture. To extend the sowing season into hot weather, sow in light shade or erect a canopy of loosely woven shade cloth over the bed.
Crops: Spring Transplant, Spring, Fall Transplant, Fall
Growing Season: Short, Long
Cultivar Type: -
Growing Conditions: Cool, Warm

Mesclun lettuce thrives in mild weather with consistent moisture. To extend the sowing season into hot weather, sown in light shade or erect a canopy of loosely woven shade cloth over the mesclun bed. Mesclun needs protection from birds, which are attracted to the young seedlings.
Outdoor Growing Temp: 45°F - 75°F
Min Outdoor Soil Temp: 40°F

When: Lettuce germinates quite well in cool (40˚ F) soil and will continue to do so until it gets up to 75˚ F (after this it gets erratic).
Start Indoors: Yes
Start Outdoors: Yes
Light: Part shade (Warm)

In hotter climates it doesn’t mind part shade (and may even benefit from it).

Sun: min. 6 hours daily (Cool)

In cool climates Lettuce needs full sun.
Water: Moderate

Lettuce is largely composed of water and it responds to irrigation by giving a larger and better tasting harvest. If you think the plants might need water they probably do.
Feeder: Heavy

Lettuce has a weak root system and isn't a very efficient feeder, so the soil needs to be quite fertile. Its main requirement is for nitrogen, but it also needs moderate amounts of potassium and phosphorus.
Suitability: Tolerates light frost, Partial shade, Needs summer shade
Small Gardens?: Yes
Containers?: Yes

This particular lettuce is easy to grow in containers. Mesclun doesn't take up much room so planters or individual pots are perfect. Since the roots are shallow, the container will need to be kept slightly moist.
Attracts beneficial insects?: No
Color: Green and red
Fruit Size: - "
Plant Height: 6.0 - 10.0"
Plant Diameter: 4.0 - 5.0"
Hardiness Zone: 3-11
Disease Resistance: -
Taste Profile: Tender, extremely flavorful, a delicacy of lettuce.
Rotation Group: Leaves: Brassicas + Leafy Greens

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Lettuce : Salad Bowl Blend

Custom blend of green and red lettuces.

Salad Bowl Blend

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