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Best Winter Lettuces Mix
The best salads often have lettuce as their base – to give you background flavours and plenty of crunch. These are our top favourite lettuce varieties for the winter. More
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The best salads often have lettuce as their base – to give you background flavours and plenty of crunch. These are our top favourite lettuce varieties for the winter.
We've chosen these lettuces because they performed best on taste and productivity in the garden.
This collection contains:- Lettuce 'Can Can'
- Lettuce 'Salad Bowl'
- Lettuce 'Merveille de Quatre Saisons'
| Genus | Lactuca sativa |
| Type | Hardy Annual |
| Common Name | Lettuce |
| Soil Type | Neutral |
| Site | Part Shade |
| Moisture | Moist |
| Spacing | 20-25cm (8-10in) |
| Sowing, Seeds, Planting | Direct sow in small batches every 4-6 weeks from February-early September. Water the drill before sowing to decrease temperatures and sow in the evening. Can also sow in modules under cover from February-March and/or September-October. You can speed the germination process up by sowing into a length of guttering under cover and transplanting outside. |
| Care Tips | The plants will be happiest in a cool, northern bed. Hot weather inhibits germination & increases the likelihood of bolting. |
| Storing | Pick just before serving. |
| Harvesting | 6-8 weeks from sowing, giving leaves for about 3 months. Harvest just outer leaves so plant can continue to grow. Successional sowing should provide leaves nearly all year. Keep picking regularly to prevent flowers running to seed. |
| Cooking Notes | Wash well. |
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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- Sow Under Cover/Plant Indoors
- Direct Sow/Plant Outdoors
- Flowers/Harvest
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Best Winter Lettuces Mix reviews
Average based on 3 reviews
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Reviewed 10th August 2019 by Phil The lettuce are really and I am the envy of the allotments because of the variety. |
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Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Annie Extremely happy with the results. The lettuces sown in September. Lived through winter even though we are in Lancs and 170 m up a fell. Very vigorous and healthy plants. Couldn't eat them all though had a damn good try. |
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Reviewed 31st July 2019 by Sheila too early to say I haven't sown them yet |
