Red Salad Bowl Lettuce

40-60 days. No kitchen garden is complete without this reliable, effortlessly grown, decorative leaf Lettuce. Red Salad Bowl has radiant red, deeply lobed and frilled tender leaves which form a large, upright rosette. It is the standard in all commercially-marketed, baby green or mesclun mixes for its curly, colorful leaves and outstanding keeping qualities. Either grown to maturity or sown thickly for cut and come again, Red Salad Bowl is a mainstay Lettuce. Slow to bolt, it retains a sweet, mild taste, growing in all seasons and showing an intense bronze-red coloration in cool weather. We like to harvest this Lettuce on the small side and halve lengthwise to reveal the beautiful fading-to-green, frilled heart. Adorn with sliced Strawberries, toasted walnuts and a fruity dressing for a special presentation. (OP.)

One packet of about 700 seeds
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#2770
$4.55
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A far cry from its wild, weedy ancestors, Lettuce now appears in all shapes, textures, flavors and sizes, bringing healthy crunch to modern kitchens. The varieties we offer are beautiful, reliable and usually not available in stores. To enjoy its ephemeral sweetness and texture, make sure Lettuce grows quickly: water it frequently and fertilize weekly with fish emulsion or manure tea. Direct-seed from the spring through the late summer. For baby greens, sow thickly and harvest with scissors or raise transplants, plugging seedlings into empty spaces in your garden as they become available.

Average seed life: 3 years.

To broaden the range of texture and flavor in your garden and salads, don't forget to plant some of these specialty Salad Greens: Arugula, Asian Greens, Chervil, Claytonia, Cress, Dandelion Greens, Endive, Escarole, Frisee, Giant Red Mustard, Komatsuna, Lettuce, Mache, Mibuna, Minutina, Mizuna, Orach, Radicchio, Salad Blends, Sorrel, Spinach, Swiss Chard, and Tatsoi.

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