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Lettuce "Lollo Rossa"
Lettuce "Lollo Rossa" - Lactuca sativa L.
Popular variety.
An excellently flavoured Italian lettuce of the type used in salads and also in many other dishes as a tasty garnish. It is compact, non hearting with a rosette of finely frilled leaves with deep red edge.
Very easy to grow and attractive in gardens, tubs, containers etc and in the salad.
Sowing Instructions: sow thinly from spring to mid summer 6 mm deep in drills 23 cm apart. A moist, well drained, fertile soil which has had plenty of compost dug in the previous autumn is best.
In very hot weather it is best to water the soil before sowing and sow during the early afternoon.
Growing Instructions: thin out gradually to 23 cm apart.
Aftercare Instructions: to harvest don t pull the whole plant - be selective - go down the row choosing only the largest, tenderest leaves. This way it will continue to replace itself the whole season.
Popular variety.
An excellently flavoured Italian lettuce of the type used in salads and also in many other dishes as a tasty garnish. It is compact, non hearting with a rosette of finely frilled leaves with deep red edge.
Very easy to grow and attractive in gardens, tubs, containers etc and in the salad.
Sowing Instructions: sow thinly from spring to mid summer 6 mm deep in drills 23 cm apart. A moist, well drained, fertile soil which has had plenty of compost dug in the previous autumn is best.
In very hot weather it is best to water the soil before sowing and sow during the early afternoon.
Growing Instructions: thin out gradually to 23 cm apart.
Aftercare Instructions: to harvest don t pull the whole plant - be selective - go down the row choosing only the largest, tenderest leaves. This way it will continue to replace itself the whole season.
