Salad bowl red is a red loose leaf lettuce variety with leaves that look a lot like oak leaf lettuce. The leaves are smooth and they've a spicy slightly nut like flavour. This lettuce doesn't form heads, so this is called loose leaf lettuce. Harvest the nicest leaves and let the others grow on. Doesn't bold easily.
Sowing under glass: beginning of april
Sowing outdoors: may
Sowing depth: ½ cm
Germination: 7-10 days
Germination temp. : 10-18 °C
Plant distance: 35-40 cm
Plant position: sunny
Days till harvest: 45
Sow indoors or under glass from april on. Sow in moist and loose potting soil Cover the seeds with a thin layer of soil. They need light to geminate. Keep the soil moist. Transplant the seedlings after about 3-4 weeks outdoors, when there's no longer any danger of night frosts. Keep them about 35 - 40 cm apart.
Sow outdoors from may on, when there's no longer any danger of nightfrosts. Sow in rows about 35 - 40 cm apart. Sow about 35 - 40 cm 3 seeds in each hole. Cover the seeds with a thin layer of soil. Thin the seedlings to about 1 seedling each. Eat the seedlings in a salad.
Harvest a couple of leaves of each plant but leave the plant to grow on. Harvest the nicest and best leaves of each plant. Pick regurlary to make sure that the plant is growing healthy. Water with drought an keep the soil moist and weedfree. Snails, slugs and aphids are a problem with lettuce. Sow every 3 - 4 weeks a small amount of seeds to prolong the harvesting period.
