Cos mix, organic seed
Eco New variety
Information
A beautiful mix of three different types of cos lettuce, all of which are old favorites of ours. Little Gem – shiny green with compact, sweet heads; Freckles – light green with violet spots; and Little Leprechaun – red-violet with a green heart. Harvest small leaves and thin early, or else Little Gem can easily be overshadowed by the other two, which grow larger. Many consider cos lettuces to be the sweetest, crispiest, and most flavorful of all lettuces. Annual.
One portion contains about 300 seeds.
| Product number: | 4200 |
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| Scientific name: | Lactuca sativa var. longifolia |
| Botanic family: | Asteraceae |
| Organic: | Yes |
| Days to maturity: | 55-65 |
| Lifespan: | Annual |
| F1 Hybrid: | No |
| New variety: | Yes |
| 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-partial 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! Cos lettuce need a mutual space of 20-30 cm to be able to form heads, 35-50 cm between the rows.Harvest
The lettuce heads should be harvested as soon as they have made heads.Seed
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.700-1100 seeds/g
A portion contains about 300 seeds.
