Description
The Salad Bowl Blend brings a visually stunning mix of 'Red Salad Bowl' and 'Green Salad Bowl' lettuces, offering vibrant colors, excellent flavor, and heat tolerance. This blend is perfect for growing both baby greens and full heads, with deeply lobed, burgundy 'Red Salad Bowl' leaves and wavy green 'Green Salad Bowl' leaves. Known for its resistance to bitterness even in the heat, it thrives in warm weather and is an All-America Selections winner ('Green Salad Bowl') and an Award of Garden Merit recipient ('Red Salad Bowl'). With a compact size, it's also ideal for container gardening.
Botanical Name: Lactuca sativa
Days to Maturity: 21 – 50 days
Family: Organic, Heirloom
Native: Asteraceae
Hardiness: Unknown; lettuce has been in cultivation for a long time.
Plant Dimensions: 6″–8″ tall, 8″ wide
Variety Information: '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.
Attributes: Good for Containers, Heat 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 Inside: 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 ?”
Seed Spacing: A group of 3 seeds every 8″
Row Spacing: 12″
Thinning: When ½” tall, thin to 1 every 8″
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.
This packet sows up to 800 feet. 3,600 seeds.
