Mesclun mix is an organically grown colourful and deliciously tasting so-called baby leaf mix. This is a mix of vegetables and herbs that can be used to spice up an ordinary salad. This mix includes Catalan chicory, wild chicory, lettuce and lettuce Red Bowl. To promote continued growth only cut off the leaves and do not remove the whole plant when harvesting. Non-hardy annual.
Outdoor sowing: April - September
Sowing depth: ½ cm
Germination: 7-10 dagen
Germination temp.: 4½ - 18 °C
Plant distance: 2 - 3 cm
Distance between the rows: 15 cm
Plant position: sunny
Days till harvest: 21 - 28
Sow outdoors from April on, when the soil can be worked. Sow the seeds about 1 cm apart and cover them with a thiny layer of soil. Mesclun is a light germinator. You can mix in some dried sand with the seeds to make sowing easier. Keep the rows 15 cm apart to make weeding much easier. Thin the seedlings, when they're large enough to handle, to about 2 - 3 cm apart. You can harvest the mesclun mix after about 21 - 28 days. Cut the Mesclun with a knife when needed, but let the roots and 1 - 2 cm of the leafs in the ground to grow on. Keep the soil moist. Snails and slugs can cause a problem.