Lettuce Salad Bowl Red Seeds

Lettuce Salad Bowl Red Seeds produce richly coloured burgundy-red looseleaf foliage with a mild flavour. This packet-labelled Lactuca sativa retail line forms an oakleaf-style rosette that can be harvested as young leaves or a full plant.

Grow it successfully: Read the Salad Bowl Red section of the South African Lettuce Grow Guide.

Quick Grow Facts

• Plant Type: Cool-season leafy vegetable annual
• Scientific Name: Lactuca sativa
• Exact Type: Packet-labelled Salad Bowl Red red oakleaf-style looseleaf retail line; no breeder series asserted
• Seed Form: Raw seed
• Pretreatment: None; sow as supplied and do not soak, scarify or chill
• General Sowing Time: Use a cool-season window; the packet says spring to autumn, but avoid peak heat and hot seedbeds
• Position: Full sun in cool weather; light afternoon shade as temperatures rise
• Sow Depth: 3 mm
• Germination Light: Light-favoured; use only a fine 3 mm cover and do not use blackout conditions
• Germination Temperature: 15–20°C family range; the current label does not print a temperature
• Germination: 7–14 days
• Spacing: 30 × 30 cm for full rosettes
• Transplanting: Move rooted plugs at several true leaves, commonly about 4–5 weeks; harden gradually and keep the crown at soil level
• Days to Harvest: 60–90 days for full plants; clean outer leaves may be taken earlier once plants are established
• Growth Type: Open burgundy-red oakleaf-style looseleaf rosette
• Seed Quantity: 2 g raw seed: approximately 1 300 seeds; 20 g raw seed: approximately 13 000 seeds

Why Grow This Variety

• Deep burgundy-red leaves add colour to garden beds and meals.
• The mild flavour suits mixed salads and sandwiches.
• Slow-bolting growth can extend useful leaf production, but the line is not heat-proof.
• 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 thinly in a fine seedbed or one to two seeds per module at exactly 3 mm.
• Keep near 15–20°C and evenly moist but never saturated for the full 7–14-day window.
• Transplant without burying the crown and allow 30 cm for a full rosette.
• Pick clean outer leaves while leaving the centre intact, or cut the mature rosette before bolting.

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