Astéracées • Lactuca sativa var. capitata

Red Iceberg Head Lettuce - Organic

"Under the summer light, a promise silently takes shape: leaves edged with purple, freshness contained in a tender heart, ready to be picked."

$4.49

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Originating from European peasant lines, this remarkable variety is rooted in a tradition of subsistence farming where taste, hardiness, and beauty are one. With its tightly packed 25 cm head, it combines dark red, almost black foliage in the sun with a vibrant green heart, offering a striking visual contrast.

In the ever-changing garden, it offers a reassuring, constant, and generous presence. Resistant to bolting and tolerant of heat, it adapts well to the rhythm of the seasons and summer harvests. Easy to integrate into a nutrient-rich area or a quiet corner of the vegetable garden, it embodies attentive and deeply rooted cultivation. Its dense and colorful foliage contributes to the diversity of textures and hues within mixed plantings.

  • Growing climate: Temperate to cool climate
  • Sowing difficulty level: Easy
  • Care required: Regular

Note: Sensitive to excessive humidity and intense heat.

Each leaf offers a crisp texture, a mild, slightly sweet flavor, and remarkable nutritional value, superior to traditional green lettuces. It is delicious when mature or picked young to create colorful salads.

Prized in kitchens where the daily pleasure of a home harvest is transformed into simple gestures — in fresh salad, as a sandwich filling or whole rolled leaves — it keeps for a few days in the fridge, but reveals all its charm when enjoyed soon after picking.

Inheriting ancient know-how, it perpetuates the tradition of a collaborative vegetable garden, cultivated with care and respect for living things.

Red Iceberg Head Lettuce - Organic

Red Iceberg Head 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 ± 60 days

Distance between plants

30 cm

Distance between rows

40 cm

Optimal brightness

Sun plant that tolerates light shade

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