Lettuce, Lattuga Giada

Lettuce, Lattuga Giada. Early, small open round head. Full, meaty and smooth leaves which are tender and crunchy.  Sow Feb-Apr and Sept-Oct and harvest till end Dec in a sheltered spot.  .Apprx. 3,000 seeds.

Early. Small open round head with full, meaty round smooth leaves which are tender and crunchy. Sow Feb-Apr and Sept-Oct and harvest till end Dec in a cold frame. @3000 seeds. Lettuces can have a very long sowing season and you can harvest them until the first hard frosts outside. They can be sown 1 cm down pretty much from February until the end of September/October, depending on the variety, and there is even one called Meraviglia d'Inverno San Martino which can be sown protected until the end of December. You can also extend their season by growing in a polytunnel or greenhouse. There are many, many different types, shapes and colours and they are generally not bothered about specific soil types or feeding. Slugs and snails like lettuce so you may have to use slug pellets, beer traps or other measures. I don't much care for slug pellets, but I do use them, sparingly, from time to time when it has been very wet. Beer traps work well, as do coffee beans, as they release emollient oils that the slugs don't like, but the best I have found so far is Marmite. If you smear it around your pots or containers, slugs will not cross it because it is so salty, and you know what salt does to slugs and snails.