Botanical Interests Buttercrunch Butterhead Lettuce Seeds
- Buttery flavor
- Melt-in-your-mouth texture
- Vigorous grower with a creamy yellow interior
- Perfect for a single-serve salad
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Buttercrunch' is a vigorous grower with a creamy yellow interior, buttery flavor and melt-in-your-mouth texture, pleasing palates since 1963. Small heads are perfect for a single-serve salad. The compact size makes it a good container variety and it's also attractive in the flower-garden border. All-America Selections Winner.
VarietyLarge, soft, slightly crumpled light green leaves in a loose head with a creamy yellow core. 'Buttercrunch' is a butterhead type lettuce bred at Cornell University.
- Days To Maturity: 21-65 Days
- Family: Asteraceae
- Type: Butterhead Lettuce (Learn More)
- Native: Unknown; Lettuce Has Been In Cultivation For A Long Time.
- Hardiness: Frost-Tolerant Annual
- Exposure: Full Sun To Part Shade
- Plant Dimensions: 5"-6" Wide, 3"-5" Tall
- Attributes: Frost Tolerant
When To Sow Outside
Recommended. 2 to 4 weeks before your average last frost date and when soil temperature is at least 40°F, ideally 60°-70°F. Successive Sowings: Every 3 weeks until 4 to 6 weeks before your average first fall frost date. Mild Climates: Sow in fall and winter for cool season harvests.
When To Start Inside4 to 6 weeks before your average last frost date and in summer when soil temperatures are too warm (above 80°F) to germinate lettuce seed.
- Days To Emerge: 5-10 Days
- Seed Depth: Surface To 1/8"
- Seed Spacing: A Group of 3 Seeds Every 6"
- Row Spacing: 8"
- Thinning: When 1/2" Tall, Thin To 1 Every 6"
Harvesting
Harvest in the morning, by cutting off at ground level. If regrowth is desired, cut the leaves higher, at 2". For a continual supply, outer, individual leaves can be harvested at any stage of maturity, but leave at least half of the plant for regrowth.
Specifications- Type: Organic Heirloom
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