Butterhead Lettuce Gotte Jaune - Lactuca sativa

This Golden Gotte Lettuce is an early variety with rapid development that offers, very early in spring, pretty little golden green heads made up of delicious tender leaves. It is ideal for early sowing under cover. Sow from February to March for a harvest from May to June.

If lettuce is one of the most popular vegetables (consuming 4.2 kilos per person per year), it is equally loved for its freshness, crunchiness, as well as its taste and nutritional qualities. It can be eaten raw in salads but also cooked, to accompany peas, for example.

As the ultimate leaf vegetable, Lettuce is an annual plant that belongs to the large Asteraceae family. 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 cultivated (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 respect 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 it with a knife when it reaches ripeness.

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

Gardener's tip: A real nightmare for gardeners, slugs and snails love lettuce leaves. When the hunt is on, we must admit that we are ready to do anything to repel or eliminate them: ash (which will be quickly leached by rain), the homemade beer trap (which hedgehogs get drunk on until they are in an alcoholic coma), the copper bands that are supposed to electrocute them (which tickle them a little)...

Instead of wasting your time and potentially your salads, we recommend using an anti-slug product composed of ferric phosphate known as Ferramol. Unlike metaldehyde-based anti-slugs, which are dangerous for wildlife and polluting, Ferramol is natural, non-toxic, and very effective as long as you remember to 'treat' your plot a few days before sowing.

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