Simply Salad - Summer Picnic Mix Seeds

Fill a pot with colourful red and green lettuce leaves for fresh salads and cool-season picking.

Ready to grow your own mixed salad bowl? Follow our step-by-step Simply Salad Grow Guide for Summer Picnic for multi-pellet sowing, moisture, regional timing and harvest advice.

Quick Grow Facts

• Series: SimplySalad Summer Picnic Mixture
• Crop: Red and green lettuces, Lactuca sativa; component cultivar names and proportions are not published
• Seed Form: Multi-species multi-pellets; the 5 and 100 pack sizes count pellets, not individual seeds
• Emergence: Several seedlings may emerge from one pellet at different speeds; a fixed seedling count or perfectly even mix is not guaranteed
• Pretreatment: None required; keep each pellet intact and do not soak, crush, peel or split it
• Sowing: Cover 3 mm deep as stated on the current packet and keep the fine mix consistently moist until the pellet breaks down
• Light: Light is optional during germination; give bright light immediately after emergence
• Germination: Breeder-controlled 2–3 days at 18–23°C; current local packet 10–14 days, so allow the full packet window at home
• Spacing: One pellet per 10–15 cm pot; 20–30 cm between mature clusters or 10–15 cm for a short baby-leaf trough
• Growth Form: Compact mounded mixed foliage, about 30 cm high and wide if allowed to mature
• Harvest: Breeder 2–4 weeks from transplant for young-leaf containers; current packet 60–90 days for a more mature outcome

Why Grow This Mixture

• Red and green leaves add varied colour, shape and texture to one container.
• The mixture is selected for better heat tolerance and later bolting than a typical lettuce mix.
• Direct sowing into the final pot keeps the multi-seed cluster intact.

Garden Uses

Grow one cluster in a small pot or distribute several pellets through a colour bowl, trough or compact bed for baby leaves and selective outer-leaf picking.

Growing Notes

• Grow mainly in cool conditions around 17–21°C by day, with afternoon shade as weather warms.
• Water at soil level, keep the root zone evenly moist and feed lightly after establishment or cutting.
• Do not thin the cluster to one plant; remove only dead, diseased or severely crowded seedlings with clean scissors.
• A light cut above every visible crown may regrow in cool conditions, but regrowth and component balance are not guaranteed.
• Pelleting does not prove untreated status. Never eat packet pellets, and follow every warning on the physical packet.
• Wash harvested leaves and clean scissors with safe water before eating or preparing food.

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