Lettuce, Looseleaf 'Drunken Woman' |
Origin: Italian heirloom
Preferred Situation: Sunny cool sites; fertile garden soil
Harvest Date: Wednesday 20 January, 2010
Seed count: 150-200
Description:
55 Days. This variety makes one huge head of lettuce of very tasty crinkled leaves. One is enough for one robust salad. Apt enough name...when young the plants are neat and orderly, but the leaf pattern becomes...er...a little more 'free' or 'relaxed' as my sisters would say. Over the years, plants with red leaves have been selected for seed saving. A great way of adding colour to your greens! Treat you lettuce well or it, like us girls, can become a little bitter!
Cultivation:
Thinly sow and barely cover; tamp firm & mist. Greater success with clear cover. Gentle bottom heat (15C) promotes germination. Days to germ: 5-10. Grow at 10C in fertile soil. Use liquid kelp for the best salad greens. Heat & intense sun is lettuce’s enemy so its best to grow in a cool site shady site in summer or suffer bitter greens.
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