LETTUCE PRIZEHEAD - SEED

LETTUCE PRIZEHEAD

Description
Prizehead Lettuce Seeds (Leaf Type) 1755 Heirloom Vegetable. A loose-leaved, bright green lettuce with a curly brownish-red edge. Excellent flavour and colour! Avoid planting too late in the spring as Prizehead tends to bolt in hot weather. Superb early spring and fall leaf lettuce.

How to Grow
880 seed/gram. Lettuce is a sun-loving cool weather crop that grows best in organic, well drained soil. Sow as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring, then every two weeks thereafter to ensure a continuous supply. Sow about 3 mm (1/8″) deep in rows 45 cm (18″) apart. An even supply of moisture during the entire growth period is imperative for success. Harvest head lettuce by cutting the head off at the base just below the lower leaves. Once lettuce bolts (starts to produce a rapidly growing flower stem) leaves become bitter.

LIFECYCLE
Annual or Biennial Harvested as an Annual

PROPAGATION
Sow Direct Every Two Weeks as Long As Weather Is Cool

DAYS TO EMERGENCE
7 to 10

LIGHT
Full Sun

GROWTH HABIT
Head Forming

HEIGHT
Low to Medium (75 to 30 cm)(3" to 12")

FROST TOLERANCE
Can Withstand Light Frost

DAYS TO HARVEST
45

DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY
Easy

HERITAGE
Heirloom

LENGTH OF ROW PACKET
One packet sows approximately 6 m (20') of row.

FAMILY NAME
Asteraceae

LATIN
Lactuca sativa