Lactuca sativa 'Salad Bowl'
Lettuce
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Lettuce (Lactuca sativa 'Salad Bowl') - Description
Lettuce Salad Bowl features crisp, tender, deeply lobed, green leaves with a sweet flavor. Slow to bolt, non-heading. This All-America winner grows best in cool weather, but is slow to bolt and is non-heading even in warmer climates. When thinning out your beds make delicious extra-early salads from the baby greens. Start successive plantings every two weeks or so to extend period of harvest. This lettuce is ready to harvest around 45 days after sowing seeds.
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa 'Salad Bowl') - Blooming
Unless you are allowing the lettuce plants to set seed for seed harvesting, you should not allow the plants to flower. Blooms dense clusters of small yellow flowers.
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa 'Salad Bowl') - Growth
Widely variable, leafy, cool-season annuals. Grows best in full sun. The leaves are edible and can mature into a range of colors and forms.
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa 'Salad Bowl') - Planting
Sow when threat of frost has passed. Sow seeds directly into the ground in early spring. Cover seeds with a light layer of soil. Provide at least 4" of space between seedlings.
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa 'Salad Bowl') - Pest
Earwigs, snails and slugs need to be controlled for.
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa 'Salad Bowl') - Interesting facts
Lettuces are in the same plant family as the sunflower and dandelion. Although they may not look similar from their foliar characteristics, their flowers look very similar. There are around 100 species of Lactuca.
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa 'Salad Bowl') - Soil and irrigation
Needs well-draining soils that have high air porosity. Does best in highly organic, garden soil.
