Lettuce Grosse Blonde Paresseuse - Lactuca sativa

This butterhead lettuce is a traditional variety of very good quality. It produces very large heads of beautiful light green leaves with a very mild flavour. A reliable choice! It is well suited for spring and autumn crops and can be sown from February to July for a harvest 8 to 10 weeks later.

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

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 planting calendar for each variety. It grows quickly and thrives in any rich and moist soil.

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 to enjoy it at its best, we recommend eating it immediately after harvest.

The gardener's little trick: Slugs and snails love salad leaves and we are willing to do almost anything to repel or eliminate them: a line of ash (which will be quickly washed away by rain), the homemade trap filled with beer (which hedgehogs get drunk on until they go into an alcoholic coma), the copper strips 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 pellets containing metaldehyde, 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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