Key Features
- Colorful mix of lettuce varieties for a diverse home garden harvest.
- Heirloom seed selection featuring varied leaf shapes, textures, and colors.
- Ideal for fresh salads, sandwiches, wraps, and everyday meals.
- Suitable for garden beds, raised beds, containers, and kitchen gardens.
- Cool-season crop that performs best in mild temperatures and fertile soil.
Growing Benefits
- Adds variety and visual interest to the vegetable garden.
- Offers different lettuce colors and textures in one convenient seed mix.
- Compact plants make the mix suitable for smaller growing spaces.
- Supports succession planting for repeated harvests during cool weather.
- Great for gardeners who enjoy fresh, colorful salad greens.
Seed Specifications
- Common Name: Mixed Lettuce
- Botanical Name: Lactuca sativa
- Plant Type: Cool-season annual
- Leaf Colors: Mixed green, red, burgundy, bronze, and other shades
- Leaf Shapes: Variable depending on the included varieties
- Growth Habit: Leafy rosette
- Sunlight: Full sun to partial shade
- Soil: Fertile, loose, well-drained soil
- Water: Regular and consistent
- Germination Time: Approximately 2–10 days under favorable conditions
- Sowing Depth: Approximately ⅛ inch
- Spacing: Approximately 6–12 inches, depending on variety and harvest size
- Growing Zones: Generally suited to USDA Zones 2–11 as a cool-season crop
- Maturity: Approximately 30–70 days, depending on varieties and harvest stage
- Uses: Salads, sandwiches, wraps, fresh greens, containers, raised beds, and kitchen gardens
Growing Tips
- Sow seeds directly outdoors during cool weather.
- Scatter seeds over finely prepared soil and cover lightly.
- Keep the seedbed evenly moist until seedlings emerge.
- Thin seedlings as they develop to provide adequate growing space.
- Make successive sowings every few weeks during suitable cool weather for continued harvests.
- Provide afternoon shade during warmer periods to help reduce heat stress.
Seed Storage
Store unused seeds in a cool, dry, dark location. Keep them sealed in their original packet or an airtight container away from moisture, heat, and direct sunlight.
Unique Facts About Seeds
- Lettuce belongs to the Asteraceae family, which also includes sunflowers and daisies.
- A mixed lettuce seed blend can produce variation in leaf color, shape, size, and texture.
- Lettuce is generally a cool-season crop and can be grown during mild periods of the year.
- Lettuce seeds are very small and should be sown shallowly for successful emergence.