Your cart is empty.Lettuce Crisphead Great Lakes (Heirloom)
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| Brand: | Botanical Interests |
| Style: | BI0024 |
| Our Price: | $1.79 |
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Days to maturity: 75
Great Lakes lettuce was the first true Iceberg lettuce! An All-American Selections winner back in 1944, it still has the same great flavor and crispness today that is much better than any Iceberg you will find in the grocery store. Use this classic lettuce in salads, sandwiches, and burgers. You can begin harvesting it in the early morning when the head reach 4" wide. Continue harvesting heads for the next two weeks, until they are at the maximum 6" width.
This packet plants: six 10-foot rows.
When to plant outside: Early spring, 3 to 4 weeks before the average last frost, or 10 weeks before the first fall frost. In USDA zone 8 or warmer (southwest, south), it can also be sown in fall for winter harvest.
When to start inside: 6 weeks before last spring frost and in summer when soil temperatures are too warm outside to germinate lettuce seed.
Special Sowing & Germination Instructions: Barely cover seed with soil or plant no deeper than 1/8". Light and cool temperatures increase germination. When thinning lettuce, use the thinnings in salads. It can be planted in rows, but group plantings take up less space and are attractive. Double or triple rows also work. If direct seeding outside in late summer for a fall crop, remember that lettuce seed does not come up well in heat. Cover the seeded area with 2" x 6" boards to keep the soil cool for a few days until seed comes up. For early spring planting, cover soil with clear plastic to warm the soil to 70 degrees (the optimum temperature for lettuce). When seedlings appear, immediately take off the plastic.
Great Lakes lettuce was the first true Iceberg lettuce! An All-American Selections winner back in 1944, it still has the same great flavor and crispness today that is much better than any Iceberg you will find in the grocery store. Use this classic lettuce in salads, sandwiches, and burgers. You can begin harvesting it in the early morning when the head reach 4" wide. Continue harvesting heads for the next two weeks, until they are at the maximum 6" width.
This packet plants: six 10-foot rows.
When to plant outside: Early spring, 3 to 4 weeks before the average last frost, or 10 weeks before the first fall frost. In USDA zone 8 or warmer (southwest, south), it can also be sown in fall for winter harvest.
When to start inside: 6 weeks before last spring frost and in summer when soil temperatures are too warm outside to germinate lettuce seed.
Special Sowing & Germination Instructions: Barely cover seed with soil or plant no deeper than 1/8". Light and cool temperatures increase germination. When thinning lettuce, use the thinnings in salads. It can be planted in rows, but group plantings take up less space and are attractive. Double or triple rows also work. If direct seeding outside in late summer for a fall crop, remember that lettuce seed does not come up well in heat. Cover the seeded area with 2" x 6" boards to keep the soil cool for a few days until seed comes up. For early spring planting, cover soil with clear plastic to warm the soil to 70 degrees (the optimum temperature for lettuce). When seedlings appear, immediately take off the plastic.
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