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Lettuce "Lollo Rossa"
Lettuce "Lollo Rossa" - Lactuca sativa.
Excellent taste and decoration: the market leader!
Delicate, corrugated, with a reddish-pink tint, the leaves of this salad will decorate any table. Early ripe, from sowing to the beginning of harvesting - 55 days. Form a loose head with a diameter of 15-20 cm, weighing 300-500 g. For closed and open ground, suitable for year-round cultivation. Resistant to flowering.
Lollo Rosso lettuce is a popular leaf lettuce used widely in Europe due to its outstanding taste and stunning beauty. The leaves of this lettuce variety are a beautiful magenta-red color with a lighter green stem and very curly outer leaves, which make for a very stunning variety of lettuce that looks truly impressive to the eye.
Lollo Rosso can be sown year round and as a leaf lettuce, will yield many cuttings. Matures in 50 to 70 days.
Description: 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 dont 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.
1 g = 800-1200 seeds.
Excellent taste and decoration: the market leader!
Delicate, corrugated, with a reddish-pink tint, the leaves of this salad will decorate any table. Early ripe, from sowing to the beginning of harvesting - 55 days. Form a loose head with a diameter of 15-20 cm, weighing 300-500 g. For closed and open ground, suitable for year-round cultivation. Resistant to flowering.
Lollo Rosso lettuce is a popular leaf lettuce used widely in Europe due to its outstanding taste and stunning beauty. The leaves of this lettuce variety are a beautiful magenta-red color with a lighter green stem and very curly outer leaves, which make for a very stunning variety of lettuce that looks truly impressive to the eye.
Lollo Rosso can be sown year round and as a leaf lettuce, will yield many cuttings. Matures in 50 to 70 days.
Description: 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 dont 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.
1 g = 800-1200 seeds.
Red Lettuce Lollo Rossa. Bot.: Lactuca sativa L.
