Relay, organic seeds
Eco
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Very beautiful, brilliant violet-red Batavia with light green base. The leaves are wavy and curly and R. grows rapidly and forms a relatively dense head. Like all Batavias it's very juicy and crunchy. It's like a cross between iceberg lettuce and looseleaf lettuce, but much easier to grow than Iceberg Lettuce. Relay can be sown both in the open and in greenhouses and grows well from early spring to late autumn. One portion contains about 70 seeds. (Relay replaces 4130 Roger, which can not be delivered this year.)
| Product number: | 4129 |
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| Scientific name: | Lactuca sativa var. capitata crispum |
| Botanic family: | The Sunflower Family - Asteraceae |
| Organic: | Yes |
| Days to maturity: | 53 |
| 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: | 20–30 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! Batavia 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
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 70 seeds.
