Looseleaf Lettuce

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Lactuca sativa (50 days) Open pollinated. Fast-growing crinkled glossy yellow-green leaf lettuce. Sweet flavor with a slight hint of bitter. Heat tolerant.

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Black Seeded Simpson Looseleaf Lettuce -

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Lactuca sativa (42 days) Open pollinated. Popular heirloom. Early looseleaf lettuce, 16" in diameter. Large crumpled juicy light-green leaves. Will not stand heat.

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De Morges Braun Looseleaf Lettuce -

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Lactuca sativa (64 days) Open pollinated. Grows upright like a romaine as it matures, the center forming a green contrast to the pink outer leaves.

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Hyper Red Rumple Waved Looseleaf Lettuce -

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Lactuca sativa (50 days) Open pollinated. Very deep red savoyed leaves with extreme ruffling. Good flavor and texture. Fair heat resistance and good cold tolerance.

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Merlot Looseleaf Lettuce -

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Lactuca sativa (32 days baby, 60 mature) Open pollinated. Modern classic. Adds intense deep red color and full-bodied flavor to baby salad mix. Not recommended for full-size heads. Cold tolerant.

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New Red Fire Looseleaf Lettuce -

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Lactuca sativa (51 days) Open pollinated. Large head with red ruffled leaves. Tender and sweet with almost no bitterness. Very bolt resistant and cold tolerant. Popular with market growers.

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Red Sails Looseleaf Lettuce -

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Lactuca sativa (49 days) Open pollinated. Standard red leaf lettuce. Attractive 10-16" heads with purplish red-splashed leaves. Lightly crunchy with melting texture. Withstands some heat.

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Red Salad Bowl Looseleaf Lettuce

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Lactuca sativa (46 days) Open pollinated. Bronze-red oakleaves. Compact frilly rosette. Buttery. Best in cool weather.

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Red Salad Bowl Looseleaf Lettuce -

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Lactuca sativa (46 days) Open pollinated. Bronze-red oakleaves. Compact frilly rosette. Buttery. Best in cool weather.

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Red Tinged Winter Looseleaf Lettuce -

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Lactuca sativa (60 days) Open pollinated. Slightly ruffled green leaf lettuce is tinged bronze at the tips. Extreme cold tolerance. Fall, winter and spring production.

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Salad Bowl Looseleaf Lettuce

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Lactuca sativa (46 days) Open pollinated. Bright green frilly notched leaves. Compact rosette. Best in cool weather.

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Salad Bowl Looseleaf Lettuce -

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Lactuca sativa (46 days) Open pollinated. Bright green frilly notched leaves. Compact rosette. Best in cool weather.

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Slobolt Looseleaf Lettuce

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Lactuca sativa (53 days) Open pollinated. Grand Rapids-type with slow early growth and pale-green leaves. Excellent heat tolerance and bolt resistance. Recommended for summer production.

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Tango Looseleaf Lettuce -

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Lactuca sativa (45 days) Open pollinated. Frilly looseleaf lettuce with deeply cut pointed leaves. A standard component of salad mixes. Recommended for overwintering and cool weather.

Lettuce

700–1100 seeds/g.
Days to maturity are from emergence after direct sowing; for transplants, subtract 20 days.

Culture: Direct seed outdoors as soon as ground can be worked and repeat every 2 weeks for continuous supply. Or start indoors in March and at regular intervals thereafter for early transplanted successions. Optimal germination temperature range 40–70° though many varieties won’t germinate in soil temps above 75° and most shut down above 80°. Thin sowings frequently and ruthlessly to a final distance of 1' for full heads. Heavy nitrogen feeders.

Hardy. All save icebergs tolerate heavy frost. Fall and overwintered harvests are becoming standard practice. For summer harvest, select varieties carefully: bolting, bottom rot and tipburn are problems if a variety can’t take the heat! Using shade cloth can keep lettuce tender and sweet longer into summer. Sesquiterpene lactones produced in the latex render lettuce bitter when it bolts.

Saving Seed: Saving lettuce seed is easy! Leave spring-planted lettuce heads to bolt. Flowers will become white tufted seeds. Once dry on stalk, rub seeds off the plant into a paper bag. To ensure true-to-type seed, separate lettuce varieties by 10 feet.

Diseases:

BOR: Bottom Rot
DM: Downy Mildew
LMV: Lettuce Mosaic Virus
PM: Powdery Mildew
SC: Sclerotinia
TB: Tipburn
X: Xanthemonas

Pest: Aster Leafhopper (vector for Aster Yellows disease)
Cultural controls: control perennial broadleaf weeds near lettuce plantings, plow lettuce fields immediately after harvest.

Pest: Slug
Cultural controls: avoid mulch or nearby grassy areas.
Material: Sluggo

Disease: Bottom Rot
Cultural controls: rotate with grass-family green manures, plant in well-drained soil or on raised beds, more upright varieties escape infection.

Major Diseases: Downy Mildew, Grey Mold, White Mold
Cultural controls: rotation, reduce duration of leaf wetness, plant parallel to prevailing winds, use wide spacing, control weeds, use well-drained fields in spring and fall.
Material controls: MilStop