Red Salad Bowl Lettuce – 200 Seeds

Red Salad Bowl Lettuce is a variety of looseleaf lettuce. The deep red leaves are especially tender, with sweet and spicy tones. Red Salad Bowl is best grown during the cooler portions of the growing season in spring or fall, though it is slow to bolt in warmer conditions. The leaves are commonly used in salads, and can first be harvested as baby greens approximately 25 days after germinating. The full growth cycle is usually complete by 55 days. Space plants 6″ apart, with 12″ between rows.

Growing Red Salad Bowl Lettuce

Indoor Sowing: Early Spring and Autumn.

Direct Sowing: Early Spring and Autumn.

• Sow the lettuce seeds in early spring or in autumn when the temperatures have started to cool after the heat of summer. In greenhouses, lettuce can be planted throughout the year.
• Surface sow the seeds and barely cover with a thin layer of soil, as lettuce seeds need light to germinate, so don’t cover them too deeply.
• Keep soil moist until germination.
• Optimal soil temperature for germination is between 8°C and 20°C.
• When plants have two or three true leaves, thin to 30cm spacing for crisphead varieties and 15 – 25cm for other types.
• Lettuce has a shallow root system. Keep soil moist to keep plants growing continuously. Mulch to retain moisture and suppress weeds.
• Lettuce is tolerant of a wide range of soils, but prefers well-drained, cool, loose soil with plentiful moisture and pH 6.2 to 6.8.
• The four main types of lettuce have different growth and maturity stages and times.
  Iceberg lettuce: 10 to 12 weeks from planting to maturity.
  Butter lettuce: Six to 10 weeks.
  Romaine lettuce: 10 to 12 weeks.
  Loose leaf lettuce: Can be cropped continuously for extended harvest periods from about five to six weeks onward.