Lactuca sativa 'Romaine Blonde Maraîchère'

The 'Blonde Maraîchère Romaine' Lettuce is a traditional variety that is highly appreciated, with its thick crunchy leaves forming beautiful upright heads. Its heat tolerance makes it well-suited for summer and autumn harvests, and it can be sown from March to August for harvesting from June to November.

If lettuce is one of the most popular vegetables (with an average consumption of 4.2 kilograms per person per year), it is because of its freshness, crunchiness, as well as its taste and nutritional qualities. It can be consumed raw in salads or cooked, for example, to accompany peas.

As the ultimate leafy 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 follow the cultivation calendar for each variety. It grows quickly and thrives in any soil, as long as it is rich and remains moist.

Harvest: It is simply done with a knife when the Lettuces are well-developed.

Storage: Lettuce can be stored for a few days in the refrigerator, but to enjoy its freshness to the fullest, we recommend consuming it immediately after harvesting. Freezing cooked Lettuce is also possible.

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

Instead of wasting your time and, incidentally, your salads, we recommend using an anti-slug product composed of ferric phosphate known as Ferramol. Unlike slug control products containing metaldehyde, which are harmful to 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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