Baby Leaf Mixed Lettuce with Rocket Italian Mix Salad Seeds 2000

Salad Guru Salad Leaf Italian Mix was one of our most popular sellers last season selling over 1900 packets on eBay alone.  is a lettuce-based Salad Leaves blended with wild rocket that capture a taste of Italy without being overpowering.

It contains

Red Batavia, Green Batavia, Lollo Rosso, Little Gem,  Red Salad Bowl, Biscia Rossa, Wild Rocket, Salad Rocket and Napoli Rocket and wild rocket

General Guide to Sowing and Growing Lettuce Seeds

Lettuce need good soil or compost  to grow well, lettuce plants don’t like full sun but enjoy growing in an area which is slightly shaded and away from full sun.

Seeds can be started indoors or outdoors for a regular tasty summer crop;

• Indoors: Sow 2 seeds to a cell, or sprinkle sparingly in a container removing the weaker seedlings as soon as the first true leaves appear on the plant. Plant outdoors once the seedlings are considered large enough.
• Indoors for Microgreens: Lettuce makes a great winter microgreen simply sprinkle in a container ,germinate in a warm room then Put the tray onto a window sill or sunny spot, making sure you keep them well watered. They should be ready to startharvesting in 6 to 8 weeks depending on the variety of salad leaves you’ve planted.
• Outdoors: Sow seeds thinly in 2cm deep drills which are 30cm apart. Cover the seeds with soil. When sowing outdoors make sure you don’t sow the seeds to close as this will waste seeds and make more working thinning them out in a few weeks time.
• Salad Leaves:  Sow every 2-3 weeks for continued harvests. If your sowing outside direct, sow in a shallow drill and cover with a half inch of fine soil. There is no need to thin out. 

Harvesting Lettuce

Lettuce are typically fast growers (slower in winter ) and before you know it your lettuce will be ready for harvesting.

Pull the whole plant from the ground and then cut off the root and lower leaves. Making sure you compost the roots and lower leaves.

Salad leaves or baby Leaf :Salad Leaves Start cutting the salad leaves when the plants reach about 10cm (4in) high. Clip the leaves with scissors, and the plants will re-grow and can be trimmed several times. Harvest leaves just before you want to eat them, or store in the fridge in a polythene bag for a couple of days.

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