Botanical Interests Salad Bowl Blend Leaf Lettuce Seeds

Fill your bowl with the mixed colors of Salad Bowl Blend! This blend has it all-great flavor, good looks and heat tolerance. Harvest young for terrific baby greens. 'Green Salad Bowl' won the All-America Selections award in 1952 and 'Red Salad Bowl' won the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1995. Successive sowings will produce sweet lettuce spring through late fall! Have filled this packet with a whopping 2.5 gram of seed, enough for a small, fresh greens farm!.

Red salad bowl has deeply lobed, burgundy leaves that form a large rosette if proper sowing distances are observed. Red color is more intense in cool weather. 'Green Salad Bowl' has lobed, wavy green leaves forming a rosette. Both are resistant to bitter flavor during the heat. Both varieties in Salad Bowl Blend are from the 1950s.

• Days To Maturity: 21-50 Days
• Family: Organic, Heirloom
• Type: Leaf Lettuce
• Native: Asteraceae
• Hardiness: Frost-Tolerant Annual
• Exposure: Full Sun
• Plant Dimensions: 6"-8" Tall, 8" Wide
• Attributes: Good For Containers, Heat Tolerant, Frost Tolerant

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.

4 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 8"
• Row Spacing: 12"
• Thinning: When 1/2" Tall, Thin To 1 Every 8"

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.

• Type: Organic Heirloom Large Packet