Lettuce Red Oakleaf - Ontario Seed Company

Lactuca sativa

This red-coloured form of the ever-popular Oakleaf lettuce is an outstanding choice for adding vibrant colour and tender texture to your salads. Just like its green cousin, Red Oakleaf is quite heat tolerant and slow to bolt, ensuring a long and reliable season. This versatile variety can be picked at the baby-leaf stage for tasty, early salads or grown through for full-sized heads, giving you two great options from a single seed packet.

What you need to know to Plant & Grow

Sowing: 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 deep in rows 45 cm apart.

Care: Lettuce is a sun-loving, cool-weather crop that grows best in organic, well-drained soil. An even supply of moisture during the entire growth period is imperative for success.

Harvesting: You can harvest leaf lettuce by either pulling the entire plant or by cutting leaves from the main stem at least 2.5 cm above the base—this will allow the plant to sprout new leaves. Once lettuce bolts (starts to produce a rapidly growing flower stem), the leaves become bitter.

Germination: Germination occurs in 7-10 days.

Approx. 1500 seeds/pkt