Dark Lollo Rossa, organic seeds
Eco
Information
Very curly, very dark burgundy leaves with a little green at the the very base. Provides fine volume and colour to a salad mixture. Tastes best when young, as fully mature leaves gets a bit rough. Dark Lollo provides a compact plant with leaves that get heavily reddened even under low-light conditions.
| Product number: | 4585 |
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| Scientific name: | Lactuca sativa var. crispa |
| Botanic family: | The Sunflower Family - Asteraceae |
| Organic: | Yes |
| Days to maturity: | 50 |
| Lifespan: | Annual |
| F1 Hybrid: | No |
| New variety: | No |
| Sowing time: | Pre-cultivate: March–May/Direct sow: May–August |
| Sowing depth: | 0,5 cm |
| Germination time: | 5–8 days |
| Plant spacing: | 15–30 cm |
| Row spacing: | 35–50 cm |
| Height: | 20–30 cm |
| Plant location: | Sun–Half shade |
| Harvest/blooming: | June–October |
| Seeds/g: | 700–1100 seeds |
| Heirloom variety: | No |
Cultivation advice
Sowing
Sow thinly about 0.5 cm deep! The seeds need light and a temperature below 18oC to germinate. A higher temperature causes late and bad germination. Lettuce can be forced very early in a green-house (soil temperature at least 5°C) or sown indoors and in hotbeds 3-5 weeks before handle several degrees of frost. Direct sowing can take place as soon as the soil is ready. Water the row before sowing if the soil is dry. That lowers the temperature some when sowing in high summer. To get a supply of lettuce all through summer and autumn, sow successively or several kinds of different growth times! Autumn sowing for wintering could succeed.Spacing
Thin out early! 35-50 cm between the rows.Harvest
Pick lettuce as the leaves grow or as a full-grown plant.Seed
700-1100 seeds/g, a normal portion sows 5-10 m outdoors or yields 100-250 seedlings for setting and 5 g for 100 m if sowing directly and 20 g yield seedlings for 1000 m2. 50-100 g sows 1000 m2 directly.A portion contains about 300 seeds.
