Butterhead Lettuce Appia - Lactuca sativa

The Appia Lettuce is a quality market garden lettuce that forms large heads of smooth, thin, and crunchy leaves. It is an excellent variety, tolerant to cold and resistant to bolting. Sow from February to July for harvest 8 weeks later.

Lettuce is one of the most popular vegetables (4.2 kilograms per year per person), as much for its freshness and crunchiness as for its taste and nutritional qualities. It can be consumed raw in salads but also cooked with peas for example.

A leaf vegetable par excellence, Lettuce is an annual plant that belongs to the large family of Asteraceae. Its Latin name, Lactuca sativa, refers both to the white sap (lactuca) that flows when it is cut and to the fact that it is edible (sativa).

It is an essential vegetable in any respectable vegetable garden, and there are so many varieties that it can be grown almost all year round.

Growing Lettuce is easy as long as you follow the growing calendar for each variety. Its growth is rapid, and it thrives in any soil, provided it is rich and remains moist.

Harvest: Simply cut at the base with a knife when it reaches maturity.

Storage: Lettuce can be stored for a few days in the refrigerator, but we recommend consuming it immediately after harvesting to enjoy it at its best.

Gardener's tip: During hot summer weather, lettuces exposed to direct sunlight tend to wilt. To avoid this, consider protecting them from harsh rays using overturned crates. In our garden, summer lettuces are not grown in rows but are interplanted everywhere: at the base of climbing beans, in the middle of cucumbers and squashes whose foliage provides beneficial shade.