Astéracées • Lactuca sativa

Mixed lettuce - Organic

"A garden of coolness where each leaf tells its own story."

$4.49

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Originating from temperate regions, this lettuce mix creates a symphony of leaves—wavy, curly, smooth, or serrated—ranging from tender green to deep red . Each variety finds its place, contributing texture, color, and depth to a leafy carpet that is as pleasing to behold as it is to harvest.

Easy to grow, mixed lettuce can be sown in rows or broadcast, offering a quick harvest from early spring. With successive sowings every 2 to 4 weeks , it ensures a continuous lettuce production . It prefers cool, well-drained soil and partial shade during warmer periods. Its low-growing habit limits weeds and attracts beneficial insects that promote healthy soil .

  • Growing climate: Cool to temperate climate
  • Sowing difficulty level: Easy
  • Care required: Regular
    Note: Does not tolerate excessive heat well, which can cause premature bolting.

This mix is ​​a celebration of culinary diversity, bringing together tender, crisp, or meltingly soft leaves with slightly sweet, bitter, or herbaceous flavors. It allows you to create colorful and textured salads, like a living garden. The young shoots are ideal for fresh mesclun salads, while the mature leaves are perfect for more substantial plates or cooked dishes.

At Jardins de l'écoumène, this lettuce is our favorite, as it combines versatility, resilience, and abundance. It's the precious foundation of our "Gourmet Salad" vegetable theme, an approach that celebrates continuous harvests, varied textures, and edible beauty. It's a diverse mix that inspires frequent sowing, joyful harvesting, and simple sharing of the garden's freshness.

Mixed lettuce - Organic

Mixed lettuce - Organic

$4.49

$4.49

écoumene seeding advice

Seeding type

Indoor and outdoor seeding

Germination time

3-10 days

Germination temperature

15° to 20° Celsius

Sowing depth

Surface sowing - without covering the soil

Transplantation

Easy transplantation

Technical

Seeding in clusters

Growing conditions

Number of days to maturity

Harvest at ± 35 days

Hardiness zone

Zone-3b

Distance between plants

20 cm

Distance between rows

30 cm

Optimal brightness

Sun plant that tolerates light shade

Soil texture

Loose (silty) soil

Soil moisture

Cool, well-drained soil

Soil fertility

Plant demanding in bacteria-dominant compost

optimal soil pH

Low acidic pH

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