Lettuce, Lattuga Red Salad Bowl

Lettuce, Lattuga Red Salad Bowl. Fast growing deep red loose leaf with red crinkly leaves. 35 days to cutting size, 55 or so days to full size. To use as a cutting lettuce, make succession plantings every 3 weeks. Broadcast sow in a bed from 3 weeks or so before last frost, trying to get seeds an inch or so apart. Cover or rake in lightly; keep bed moist until lettuce emerges (7-14 days depending on temperature). To harvest either grab a bunch of plants and cut with a knife or pull entire plant. For full size, either leave some of the lettuce in the broadcast area or plant 2-3 seeds every 12 inches, thin to one. Space rows 12 inches apart.