Butter Lettuce Vegetable Seeds
Butter Lettuce Vegetable Seeds
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With a full-bloom period during summer, you can enjoy fresh, crisp lettuce leaves for your salads and culinary creations. Butter Lettuce is a succulent plant, known for its delicate texture and sweet flavor. The flowerpot is excluded, allowing you to choose the pot or plant directly in the ground. The climate requirement is temperate, making it suitable for a wide range of regions.
Highlights:
- Product Type: Bonsai, ideal for enhancing your outdoor garden
- Use: Outdoor Plants, ideal for growing in outdoor gardens
- Cultivating Difficulty Degree: Very Easy, suitable for novice and experienced gardeners
- Full-bloom Period: Summer, providing a fresh harvest of delicious lettuce leaves
- Type: Succulent Plant, known for its delicate texture and sweet flavor
- Flowerpot: Excluded, giving you flexibility in planting options
- Climate: Temperate, suitable for a wide range of regions
- Variety: Cream Lettuce, offering luscious and tender lettuce leaves
- Each pack contains 120 seeds, ensuring an ample supply for a thriving lettuce patch in your garden.
- Species and varieties: Butter lettuce, also known as Bibb or Boston lettuce, belongs to the species Lactuca sativa. It is known for its soft, buttery-textured leaves and mild flavor. Popular varieties include 'Buttercrunch', 'Tom Thumb', and 'Butterhead'.
- Hybrid or heirloom: Butter lettuce can be found in both hybrid and heirloom varieties. Heirloom varieties are often prized for their traditional flavors and characteristics, while hybrid varieties may offer improved disease resistance and uniformity.
- Pruning and training: Butter lettuce does not require extensive pruning. However, regular harvesting of outer leaves can encourage continued growth. Ensure proper spacing to allow air circulation and prevent disease.
- Fertilization needs: Butter lettuce benefits from a balanced fertilizer applied at planting and periodically throughout the growing season. Organic compost or a balanced 10-10-10 fertilizer can be used. Avoid over-fertilizing, as this can lead to excessive leaf growth and reduced flavor.
- Hardiness zones: Butter lettuce is suitable for USDA hardiness zones 4-9. It can be grown in cooler climates and is often planted in early spring or fall.
- Climate requirements: Butter lettuce thrives in cool weather with temperatures between 60-70°F (15-21°C). It prefers full sun to partial shade and well-drained, fertile soil with a pH between 6.0 and 7.0.
