Batavia Lettuce Décision - Lactuca sativa

The Decision Batavia Lettuce is an excellent open-field variety, semi-crisp type, with a round and well-filled heart, thick, blonde, very crunchy leaves. It is a lettuce that is highly resistant to running to seed, aphids, and the internal tipburn disease. Young plants from Organic Agriculture.

If lettuce is one of the most popular vegetables (4.2 kilograms consumed per person per year), it is equally appreciated for its freshness, crunchiness, 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 leafy vegetable, lettuce is an annual plant belonging 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 cultivated almost all year round.

Lettuce cultivation is easy as long as the cultivation calendar for each variety is respected. Its growth is fast, and it thrives in any soil, provided it is rich and remains moist.

Harvest: It is simply done with a knife when it reaches ripeness.

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

Gardener's tip: During hot summer days, lettuces exposed to full sun tend to wither miserably. To avoid this phenomenon, consider protecting them from intense rays using overturned crates. In our garden, summer lettuces are not cultivated in rows but interplanted in various locations: at the base of climbing beans, amidst cucumbers and squashes whose foliage provides beneficial shade.

Note: Attention, our young plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant and store them under cover (veranda, greenhouse, cold frame...) at a temperature above 14°C (57.2°F) for a few weeks before being installed outdoors once the risk of frost is definitively eliminated.