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Lettuce Salad Bowl Red Seeds produce richly coloured burgundy-red looseleaf foliage with a mild, non-bitter taste. Slow-bolting plants can be harvested as baby leaves or full rosettes.
Quick Grow Facts
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Plant Type: Vegetable
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Scientific Name: Lactuca sativa
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General Sowing Time: Spring to Autumn
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Position: Sun
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Sow Depth: 3 mm
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Spacing: 30 x 30 cm
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Germination: 7-14 days
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Days to Harvest: 60 - 90 days
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Type: Looseleaf
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Seed Quantity: 2g raw seed: Approx 1 300 seeds; 20g raw seed: Approx 13 000 seeds
Why Grow This Variety
- Deep burgundy-red leaves add colour to garden beds and meals.
- The mild flavour is described as non-bitter.
- Slow-bolting growth helps extend useful leaf production.
- Leaves can be picked young or grown into full rosettes.
Garden Uses
Use Salad Bowl Red in salad mixes, edible landscaping or containers where its colour and flexible harvest stages are useful.
Growing Notes
- Sow from spring to autumn.
- Grow in sun.
- Follow the listed 3 mm sowing depth and 30 x 30 cm spacing.
- Allow 7-14 days for germination.
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