Your cart is empty.Lettuce Butterhead Tom Thumb (Heirloom)
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| Brand: | Botanical Interests |
| Style: | BI0026 |
| Our Price: | $1.79 |
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Days to maturity: 50
Tom Thumb, a miniature English heirloom butterhead, is the perfect size for individual salads. Its petite 4" - 5" loose heads can be grown in containers, window boxes, or even as an edible border along a path or flower bed. The sweet, tender heads with buttery flavor are a gourmet treat any way you serve them. You can harvest individual leaves as the plant grows, cut the entire plant off at ground level, or twist out the small interior head to make a lettuce 'bowl' that can be filled with your favorite salad ingredients. (Butterhead type lettuce is rarely bitter, quick maturing, and they are also known as Boston or Bibb lettuce.)
This packet plants seven 10-foot rows or seven successive plantings of 10-foot rows.
When to plant outside: Early spring, 3 to 4 weeks before the average last frost, and successive plantings thereafter every 3 weeks until 2 weeks before the first fall frost. In USDA zone 8 or warmer, 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: 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.
Tom Thumb, a miniature English heirloom butterhead, is the perfect size for individual salads. Its petite 4" - 5" loose heads can be grown in containers, window boxes, or even as an edible border along a path or flower bed. The sweet, tender heads with buttery flavor are a gourmet treat any way you serve them. You can harvest individual leaves as the plant grows, cut the entire plant off at ground level, or twist out the small interior head to make a lettuce 'bowl' that can be filled with your favorite salad ingredients. (Butterhead type lettuce is rarely bitter, quick maturing, and they are also known as Boston or Bibb lettuce.)
This packet plants seven 10-foot rows or seven successive plantings of 10-foot rows.
When to plant outside: Early spring, 3 to 4 weeks before the average last frost, and successive plantings thereafter every 3 weeks until 2 weeks before the first fall frost. In USDA zone 8 or warmer, 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: 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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