| Description | Leaf Lettuce ABC's (Lactuca sativa) Grown as a early season salad crop all over the world. Best grown early in the cool temperatures or fall. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | Edibles Vegetables |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, avoid dry |
| Soil & Site | average, avoid dry |
| Temperature | grow best in the cooler areas and early growing season or cool fall |
| Leaves | loose clusters of leaves, toothed, ruffled, smooth, many colors, green, purple, bronze, etc |
| Roots | fibrous |
| Maintenance | cut the leaves of at the base for salad, will regrow, cut fresh since they quickly spoil |
| Propagation | seed in situ, early in the growing season, about April 15 my area of zone #5, plant small rows a week apart for continual harvest |
| Native Site | originated in the Mediterranean and Near East |
| Misc Facts | harvest early before it gets warm, waiting to long and the sap will become white and very bitter, if it bolts it is done |
| Author's Notes | I grew up growing and eating Leaf Lettuce in zone #4. I still remember wilted lettuce salads consisting of freshly harvest leaf lettuce (probably Black Seed Simpson or Bronze Leaf) covered with hot bacon grease. Yes!, we used the artery clogging bacon grease and mom fried chicken in Criso. |
| Notes & Reference | $192-Alluring Lettuces Jack Staub |
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